How Britain leads the world in Covid sequencing
The UK punches above its weight in sequencing and our scientists realised early on that understanding viral mutations would be crucial
3 May 2021 • 3:22pm
Sequencing the covid pathogen is crucial to stopping the spread of the virus and developing effective vaccines against it
“I have to cancel our chat, I’m on an urgent call with India,” Prof Sharon Peacock writes in a last-minute email. With the pandemic bringing the subcontinent to its knees, Peacock and her team of genomic sequencing experts at the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium, known as Cog-UK, are offering technical expertise to their Indian counterparts on virus surveillance.