COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium Blog
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Welcome to the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium website. We hope this provides an engaging platform to find out more about our work in SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and analysis to support the worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic.A key goal when the consortium was in its infancy was to look ahead and envisage a sustainable public health sequencing network across the UK.
COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium Blog
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Launch of our third COG-Train online course "Making sense of genomic data: COVID-19 web-based bioinformatics". Explore the tools for web-based SARS-CoV-2 sequencing analyses and learn techniques to prepare data and ..read more
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How do sequencing experts decide upon their testing and analysis strategy? Our second COG-Train online course “From Swab to Server: Testing, Sequencing, and Sharing During a Pandemic” will take you ..read more
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For our April Women in COG event, the team hosted a discussion with Dr Senjuti Saha, a molecular microbiologist who is currently Director at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF ..read more
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WHO’s recently published global strategy for the genomic surveillance of pathogens offers a practical framework for future pandemic preparedness, which COG-Train is already starting to deliver on ..read more
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On Wednesday 29th June, at 12:15 – 13:00 BST, we will be hosting our next ‘Women in COG’ event featuring Emma Thomson, OBE, Professor in Infectious Diseases at the MRC-University ..read more
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COG-UK has recently launched a new internal fund to support career development in the Consortium. This scheme aims to provide support to early career scientists with a particular focus on ..read more
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Join our webinars for a 'behind the scenes' look at our training programme with our course educators, contributors, and reviewers ..read more
COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium Blog
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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that we have the ability to perform large-scale genomic surveillance of the SARS-CoV2 virus. Harnessing this capability could allow us to track and learn more ..read more
COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium Blog
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The recently launched COG-Train programme is an open-access educational initiative focused on providing impactful learning opportunities around SARS-CoV-2 genomics to a global audience. We spoke to two educators who took ..read more
COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium Blog
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COG-Train’s ambition is to provide high quality, open-access training across the world, on all aspects of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and bioinformatics. Key to this is having a model which supports a ..read more