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To analyze the extent of variability introduced by differing wet-lab procedures on the quality of the sequence data we conducted an interlaboratory study, involving four bacterial pathogens, which account for the majority of food-related bacterial infections: <jats:italic>Campylobacter<\/jats:italic> spp., Shiga toxin-producing <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Listeria monocytogenes<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Salmonella enterica<\/jats:italic>. The participants, ranging from German federal research institutes, federal state laboratories to universities and companies, were asked to follow their routine in-house protocols for short-read sequencing of 10 cultures and one isolated bacterial DNA per species. Sequence and assembly quality were then analyzed centrally. Variations within isolate samples were detected with SNP and cgMLST calling. Overall, we found that the quality of Illumina raw sequence data was high with little overall variability, with one exception, attributed to a specific library preparation kit. The variability of Ion Torrent data was higher, independent of the investigated species. For cgMLST and SNP analysis results, we found that technological sequencing artefacts could be reduced by the use of filters, and that SNP analysis was more suited than cgMLST to compare data of different contributors. Regarding the four species, a minority of <jats:italic>Campylobacter<\/jats:italic> isolate data showed the in comparison highest divergence with regard to sequence type and cgMLST analysis. 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