The United Nations Secretary-General’s Mechanism (UNSGM) Dry-Laboratory External Quality Assurance Excercise [EQAE] 3, 2023 conducts dry-laboratory [Bioinformatics] external quality assurance exercises for the detection and characterization of viral pathogens as biological weapons with Next-Generation DNA Sequencing to further strengthen the bio-analytical reference laboratories in the UNSGM. Accordingly,