SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Sequence Read Archive Data

Investigator: Patrick Chain
Affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory

This project is looking for signatures of SARS-CoV-2 in a large repository of genomics data to better track the temporal and spatial spread of the virus. The past six months of data are being scanned to better understand the background levels in the environment.

Data is coming from the Sequence Read Archive, a database of genomics data from the next generation of sequencing platforms, maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

The team from Los Alamos National Lab develops bioinformatics tools that have been deployed in a data-intensive computing environment and have been recognized with an R&D 100 Award.

About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
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