SARS-CoV-2

Detection of Pathogens from Aerosols at Wastewater Treatment Facilities

High E. Olsen from the University of California, Santa Cruz presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Detecting SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in aerosols at wastewater treatment plants.” The title is really intriguing! Wastewater, Olsen said, is a catalog of human pathogens and also a source of aerosols because of the aerators used. The […]
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High-throughput Testing in Indonesia

Ariel Pradipta from the Genomik Solidaritas Indonesia Lab (GSI Lab) spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “The First 100 days of establishing nanopore-based sequencing for national SARS-CoV-2 surveillance.” Pradipta is a senior researcher fellow assisting in the national genomic efforts. They recognized a gap in rapid sequencing. To address this, they worked on […]
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Midnight and ARTIC SARS-CoV-2 Protocol Comparisons

Julie Karl & Robert Maddox from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “SARS-CoV-2 sequencing: on the midnight train to throughput.” They started with statistics from November 11, 2021 about global COVID-19 cases, including data from GISAID. The GISAID graph showed which countries had contributed to the database. Karl shared […]
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