Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics
Knyazev S, Chhugani K, Sarwal V, Ayyala R, Singh H, Karthikeyan S, Deshpande D, Baykal PI, Comarova Z, Lu A, Porozov Y, Vasylyeva TI, Wertheim JO, Tierney BT, Chiu CY, Sun R, Wu A, Abedalthagafi MS, Pak VM, Nagaraj SH, Smith AL, Skums P, Pasaniuc B, Komissarov A, Mason CE, Bortz E, Lemey P, Kondrashov F, Beerenwinkel N, Lam TTY, Wu NC, Zelikovsky A, Knight R, Crandall KA, Mangul S. 2022. Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics. Nature Methods. 19(4), 374–380.
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Knyazev, Sergey;
Chhugani, Karishma;
Sarwal, Varuni;
Ayyala, Ram;
Singh, Harman;
Karthikeyan, Smruthi;
Deshpande, Dhrithi;
Baykal, Pelin Icer;
Comarova, Zoia;
Lu, Angela;
Porozov, Yuri;
Vasylyeva, Tetyana I.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, genomics and bioinformatics have emerged as essential public health tools. The genomic data acquired using these methods have supported the global health response, facilitated the development of testing methods and allowed the timely tracking of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants. Yet the virtually unlimited potential for rapid generation and analysis of genomic data is also coupled with unique technical, scientific and organizational challenges. Here, we discuss the application of genomic and computational methods for efficient data-driven COVID-19 response, the advantages of the democratization of viral sequencing around the world and the challenges associated with viral genome data collection and processing.
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2022-04-08
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Nature Methods
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Our paper is dedicated to all freedom-loving people around the world, and to the people of Ukraine who fight for our freedom. We thank William M. Switzer and Ellsworth M. Campbell from the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA, for discussions and suggestions. We thank Jason Ladner from the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, for providing suggestions and feedback. S.M. was partially supported by National Science Foundation grants 2041984. T.L. is supported by the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau; 31922087), Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaborative Research Fund (C7144-20GF), RGC Research Impact Fund (R7021-20), Innovation and Technology Commission’s InnoHK funding (D24H) and Health and Medical Research Fund (COVID190223). P.S. was supported by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant 1R01EB025022 and National Science Foundation (NSF) grant 2047828. M.A. acknowledges King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and the Saudi Human Genome Project for technical and financial support (https://shgp.kacst.edu.sa) N.W. was supported by US NIH grants R00 AI139445, DP2 AT011966 and R01 AI167910. A.S. acknowledge funding from NSF grant no. 2029025. A.Z. has been partially supported by NIH grants 1R01EB025022-01 and 1R21CA241044-01A1. S. Knyazev has been partly supported by Molecular Basis of Disease at Georgia State University and NIH awards R01 HG009120, R01 MH115676, R01 AI153827 and U01 HG011715. A.W. has been supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2021-I2M-1-061). R.K. was supported by NSF project 2038509, RAPID: Improving QIIME 2 and UniFrac for Viruses to Respond to COVID-19, CDC project 30055281 with Scripps led by Kristian Andersen, Genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 to investigate local and cross-border emergence and spread. J.O.W. was supported by NIH–National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) R01 AI135992 and receives funding from the CDC unrelated to this work. T.I.V. is supported by the Branco Weiss Fellowship. Y.P. was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the framework of state support for the creation and development of World-Class Research Centers “Digital biodesign and personalized healthcare” N◦075-15-2020-926. E.B. was supported by a US National Institute of General Medical Sciences IDeA Alaska INBRE (P20GM103395) and NIAID CEIRR (75N93019R00028). C.E.M. thanks Testing for America (501c3), OpenCovidScreen Foundation, Igor Tulchinsky and the WorldQuant Foundation, Bill Ackman and Olivia Flatto and the Pershing Square Foundation, Ken Griffin and Citadel, the US National Institutes of Health (R01AI125416, R01AI151059, R21AI129851, U01DA053941), and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (G-2015-13964). C.Y.C. is supported by US CDC Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) for Infectious Diseases grant 6NU50CK000539 to the California Department of Public Health, the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Francisco, NIH grant R33AI12945 and US CDC contract 75D30121C10991. A.K. was partly supported by RFBR grant 20-515-80017. P.L. acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. ~725422 - ReservoirDOCS), the Wellcome Trust through project 206298/Z/17/Z (Artic Network) and NIH grants R01 AI153044 and U19 AI135995. K.C. acknowledges support from the US NSF award EEID-IOS-2109688. F.K.’s work was supported by an ERC Consolidator grant to F.K. (771209–CharFL).
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Knyazev S, Chhugani K, Sarwal V, et al. Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics. Nature Methods. 2022;19(4):374-380. doi:10.1038/s41592-022-01444-z
Knyazev, S., Chhugani, K., Sarwal, V., Ayyala, R., Singh, H., Karthikeyan, S., … Mangul, S. (2022). Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics. Nature Methods. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01444-z
Knyazev, Sergey, Karishma Chhugani, Varuni Sarwal, Ram Ayyala, Harman Singh, Smruthi Karthikeyan, Dhrithi Deshpande, et al. “Unlocking Capacities of Genomics for the COVID-19 Response and Future Pandemics.” Nature Methods. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01444-z.
S. Knyazev et al., “Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics,” Nature Methods, vol. 19, no. 4. Springer Nature, pp. 374–380, 2022.
Knyazev S, Chhugani K, Sarwal V, Ayyala R, Singh H, Karthikeyan S, Deshpande D, Baykal PI, Comarova Z, Lu A, Porozov Y, Vasylyeva TI, Wertheim JO, Tierney BT, Chiu CY, Sun R, Wu A, Abedalthagafi MS, Pak VM, Nagaraj SH, Smith AL, Skums P, Pasaniuc B, Komissarov A, Mason CE, Bortz E, Lemey P, Kondrashov F, Beerenwinkel N, Lam TTY, Wu NC, Zelikovsky A, Knight R, Crandall KA, Mangul S. 2022. Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics. Nature Methods. 19(4), 374–380.
Knyazev, Sergey, et al. “Unlocking Capacities of Genomics for the COVID-19 Response and Future Pandemics.” Nature Methods, vol. 19, no. 4, Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 374–80, doi:10.1038/s41592-022-01444-z.
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