by Faith Williams | Mar 11, 2021 | News
Meredith Wadman | Science Magazine | Mar. 10, 2021 In December 2020, software developer Angie Hinrichs at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), applied for access to a labor-saving data feed from GISAID, a nonprofit database of viral sequences including...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Mar 10, 2021 | News
See your #SARS-CoV-2 sequence placement on a global phylogenetic tree, performed by Ultrafast Sample placement on Existing tRees (UShER) (Turakhia et al.) UShER generates local subtrees, displaying the most similar complete, high-coverage samples from GISAID or public...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Mallory Pickett | March 1, 2021 | Lookout Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz scientists said Monday that they had completed genomic sequencing of 84 COVID-19 samples from Santa Cruz County, with none of the CDC’s three official “variants of concern” turning up. But...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Mar 3, 2021 | News
Nature | David Haussler, Max Haeussler, Angie Hinrichs, Russell Corbett-Detig & Isabel Bjork | March 3, 2021 We agree that urgent research on SARS-CoV-2 sequence data is being slowed by antiquated regulations and those who put data ownership and priority over the...
by Tu-An Nguyen | Feb 22, 2021 | News
U.S. Push to Find Covid Variants Remains Piecemeal, Disconnected February 22, 2021 | Jill R Shah | Bloomberg U.S. efforts to detect dangerous, fast-moving Covid-19 mutations that are already bedeviling states remain slim and disconnected as the Biden administration...