Resources
A useful range of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 additional resources
Coronavirus biology: ViralZone
Coronavirus taxonomy: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
SARS-CoV-2 replication cycle by Sultanas, Inc
Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution: NextStrain
Lineages nomenclature: Pango
Genomic data sharing: GISAID
Cloud Infrastructure for Big Data Microbial Bioinformatics: CLIMB
COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium: COG-UK
NCBI COVID-19 scientific literature: LitCovid
SARS-CoV-2 sequencing protocol: ARTIC protocol
Examples of commercially available library prep kits or open-source protocols used in SARS-CoV-2 WGS by amplicon-seq
[CoronaHiT: high-throughput sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes)[https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-021-00839-5]
Mini-XT, a miniaturized tagmentation-based protocol for efficient sequencing of SARS-CoV-2
NEBNext ARTIC products for SARS-CoV-2 sequencing
nCoV-2019 sequencing protocol v3 (LoCost)
Ion AmpliSeq SARS-CoV-2 Insight Research Assay
EasySeq™ SARS-CoV-2 WGS kit (NimaGen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Examples of commercially available SARS-CoV-2 probe panels used in probe/bait capture
Agilent Community Designs – Infectious Diseases
IDT – xGen SARS-CoV-2 Hyb Panel
myBaits Expert Virus SARS-CoV-2 panel (Arbor Biosciences)
KAPA HyperCap SARS-CoV-2 panel
Sequencing Analysis Viewer Software User Guide
NextSeq 500/550 Specifications
Images and illustrations
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Educators and Contributors photographs provided from their personal archive.
A Practical Guide for SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Sequencing
A Practical Guide for SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Sequencing
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