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As I understand it, the UK was doing more tracking of Covid-19 mutations than pretty much everyone else on the planet, which is exactly why this stood out.
by makomk 6y ago
As I understand it, the UK was doing more tracking of Covid-19 mutations than pretty much everyone else on the planet, which is exactly why this stood out.
- timr 6y ago(edit: removed. guess I was wrong. it does make it even more incredible that someone involved with that much sequencing could make such a claim.)
- cyrksoft 6y agoThe UK is the word leader in COVID sequencing[0]. [0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-u-k-became-world-leader-in-sequencing-the-coronavirusgenome-11612011601 https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-u-k-became-world-leader...
- johneth 6y ago> In the past year, more than 360,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been sequenced and stored on GISAID, a non-profit online database for sharing viral genomes. Geographic distribution of the sequences on GISAID is broad, covering more than 140 countries. But most countries have uploaded only a small number of sequences. Two exceptions are the United Kingdom and Denmark, which respectively account for 45% and 7% of SARS-CoV-2 genomes on the database.[1] This is from an article published in January this year. The UK had sequenced and shared 45% of the sequences in the GISAID database at that point in time. Which is a lot. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00065-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00065-4