DNA sequencing at the Quadram Institute during the Covid-19 pandemic 🧬
Head of Sequencing at the Quadram Institute Dave Baker about his innovative work sequencing Covid-19.
When the covid pandemic started in early 2020, the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (known as COG-UK) approached us to be one of the academic partners of the consortium. The government invested about £20 million into sequencing or looking for the variants and sequencing Sars-Cov-2.
During the covid pandemic we were part of the REACT-study too, which was real-time surveillance of the variants in the UK conducted by Imperial College London.
The Quadram Institute is a national capability for the country. In the future, if there is another pandemic with a different pathogen or virus, we can use our DNA sequencing method to track it.
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