In late 2019, a novel coronavirus began spreading in Wuhan, China, causing a potentially
lethal respiratory viral infection. By early 2020, the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2 …

The novel SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has swiftly spread worldwide. The rapid genome
sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 strains has become a helpful tool for better understanding the …

The scale of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic warrants the urgent establishment of a
global decentralized surveillance system to recognize local outbreaks and the emergence of …

A new human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),
emerged at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China that caused a range of disease severities; …

Surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 variants including the quickly spreading mutants by rapid
and near real-time sequencing of the viral genome provides an important tool for effective …

Genome sequencing has shown strong capabilities in the initial stages of the COVID-19
pandemic such as pathogen identification and virus preliminary tracing. While the rapid …

Genome sequencing has been widely deployed to study the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with
more than 90,000 genome sequences uploaded to the GISAID database. We published a …

In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a highly increased sequencing effort has been
established worldwide to track and trace ongoing viral evolution. Technologies, such as …

Genomic surveillance has become a useful tool for better understanding virus pathogenicity,
origin and spread. Obtaining accurately assembled, complete viral genomes directly from …

Nanopore sequencing has emerged as a rapid and cost-efficient tool for diagnostic and
epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study …