Highly Accurate Chip-Based Resequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Clinical Samples.

ABSTRACT: SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 128 million people worldwide, and until a vaccine is developed and widely disseminated, vigilant testing and contact tracing are the most effective ways to slow the spread of COVID-19. Typical clinical testing only confirms the presence or absence of the virus, but rather, a simple and rapid testing procedure that sequences the entire genome would be impactful and allow for tracing the spread of the virus and variants, as well as the appearance of new variants. However, traditional short read sequencing methods are time consuming and expensive. Herein, we describe a tiled genome array that we developed for rapid and inexpensive full viral genome resequencing, and we have applied our SARS-CoV-2-specific genome tiling array to rapidly and accurately resequence th

SUBMITTER: Hoff K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8056606 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature