Journal
NATURE MEDICINE
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 832-841Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-0935-z
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program [DGE-1256082]
- NIH [R35 GM119774-01]
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Increasingly, public-health agencies are using pathogen genomic sequence data to support surveillance and epidemiological investigations. As access to whole-genome sequencing has grown, greater amounts of molecular data have helped improve the ability to detect and track outbreaks of diseases such as COVID-19, investigate transmission chains and explore large-scale population dynamics, such as the spread of antibiotic resistance. However, the wide adoption of whole-genome sequencing also poses new challenges for public-health agencies that must adapt to support a new set of expertise, which means that the capacity to perform genomic data assembly and analysis has not expanded as widely as the adoption of sequencing itself. In this Perspective, we make recommendations for developing an accessible, unified informatic ecosystem to support pathogen genomic analysis in public-health agencies across income settings. We hope that the creation of this ecosystem will allow agencies to effectively and efficiently share data, workflows and analyses and thereby increase the reproducibility, accessibility and auditability of pathogen genomic analysis while also supporting agency autonomy. To support progress in genomic epidemiology, a transparent, user-friendly approach is required.
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