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Purpose of WGS in population epidemiology

1. Surveillance
2. Outbreak Investigation
3. Source attribution
4. Microbial population

Omicron BA2 infects more in vaccinated

Shelton, J. F., Shastri, A. J., Fletez-Brant, K., Stella Aslibekyan, & Auton, A. (2022). The UGT2A1/UGT2A2 locus is associated with COVID-19-related loss of smell or taste. Nature Genetics, 54(2), 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00986-w

Mallapaty, Smriti. ‘Where Did Omicron Come from? Three Key Theories’. Nature 602, no. 7895 (28 January 2022): 26–28. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00215-2.

Viral Genome sequencing facility in India

• 38 labs

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Mallapaty, S. (2021). The search for people who never get COVID. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02978-6

Rono, E. K. (2021). Covid-19 genomic analysis reveals clusters of emerging sublineages within the delta variant [Preprint]. Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.08.463334

This is what the research is studying.

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Efficiency sounds too exciting to not try!

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Balloux, F. (2020, May 22) A thread written by @BallouxFrancois. Threader. https://threader.app/thread/1263745877702737920

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More on Nala in the Vet Candy blog https://www.myvetcandy.com/clinicalupdblog/2020/4/2/first-complete-german-shepherd-dna-offers-new-tool-to-fight-disease

Coverage in GenomeWeb https://www.genomeweb.com/scan/german-shepherds-own-sequence#.XoeoXG4o-qA

discussion of tools; recently revived

re Venter study in PNAS, claiming to be able to identify people based on whole genome data

mentioned tools are focused on (capture) Hi-C data

Napoleon oak genome sequencing project web site: example of public engagement in tree genomics

data (not yet live) associated with https://hyp.is/4DerrmIaEeehDPNBqsRcxQ/www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/06/13/149203.full.pdf

NIG Mouse Genome Database: JF1 and MSM SNPs; effective genome browser

restart may be insufficient; had to modify prefs.properties in ~/igv (removing old cached genome values) before i could see my genomes

This paper was studied in a case study that lead to some corrections. See the paper here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127612

Poorly studied in some part to its very high degree of heterozygosity. You can get some more insight here, where it was nominated as a "top ten genome" http://www.homolog.us/blogs/blog/2015/05/08/top-ten-genomes-ix-pacific-oyster/

See Nature doi:10.1038/nature11236 for more on how LFR works: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7406/full/nature11236.html