Abstract
This review discusses the current testing methodologies for COVID-19 diagnosis and explores next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 and monitoring phylogenetic evolution in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The review addresses the development, fundamentals, assay quality control and bioinformatics processing of the NGS data. This article provides a comprehensive review of the obstacles and opportunities facing the application of NGS technologies for the diagnosis, surveillance, and study of SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases. Further, we have contemplated the opportunities and challenges inherent in the adoption of NGS technology as a diagnostic test with real-world examples of its utility in the fight against COVID-19.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 845-867 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Current Issues in Molecular Biology |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 30 2021 |
Keywords
- COVID-19/diagnosis
- Computational Biology/methods
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing/methods
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology/methods
- Pandemics
- Phylogeny
- SARS-CoV-2/genetics