Acknowledgements
Many thanks to all those who were involved in the making of the course From Swab to Server: testing, sequencing and sharing during a pandemic Course Educators Dr Ana Filipe …
Course: From Swab to Server: Testing, Sequencing, and Sharing During a Pandemic
What is next?
Free Digital Certificate of Achievement This is a Sponsored course, which means that learners can obtain a free Certificate once they become eligible. To be eligible, you must have marked …
Resources
A useful range of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 additional resources. Resources Coronavirus biology: ViralZone Coronavirus taxonomy: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution: NextStrain Lineages nomenclature: …
Summary of the Week 1
This week we have followed the pathway of a sample through clinical testing. We have also heard about some of the practical challenges involved in both PCR testing and sequencing …
No database is perfect: beware errors in sequence databases
Public and private initiatives to implement and extend the sequencing capability on a global basis, particularly in developing countries are helping to find blind spots of SARS-COV-2 genetic information in …
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From Swab to Server: Testing, Sequencing, and Sharing During a Pandemic