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Cloud-based tool can rapidly detect and track emerging pathogens – News-Medical.Net
Published today in the journal GigaScience is a new open source, cloud-based tool called IDseq that makes it possible to rapidly detect, identify, and track eme…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 15 2020
Published today in the journal GigaScience is a new open source, cloud-based tool called IDseq that makes it possible to rapidly detect, identify, and track emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.
This tool can identify pathogens before there is an available complete genome sequence; thus, it can be used for current infectious disease outbreaks and also for emerging ones. This will substantially aid in preventing future pandemics.
The coronavirus p…
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