IS NEXT GEN SEQUENCING A HOPE TO FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19?

 

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has turned out to be an option for a lot of researchers answering to the possibility of infectious disease epidemics and the present coronavirus pandemic.

 The use of NGS technology has skyrocketed in recent years and is getting more approval from the researchers. It is now becoming an important option for most researchers in the battle against the pandemic. COVID-19, a lung disease caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has quickly swept across the world, contaminating a vast number of people. Early rapid diagnosis is the main weapon in the fight against the virus. NGS has great potential for identifying the nucleic acid sequences of viruses and lets parallel sequencing of a huge amount of DNA fragments in a single test with high precision and a quick turn round time.

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