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Decoding Covid-19: SANBI Scientists Peek Inside First South African SARS-CoV-2 Genome

Bioinformatics

COVID-19 has emerged, seemingly out of nowhere, to upend our lives and our world – but scientists around the globe are working around the clock to find out more about this pandemic, and the SARS-CoV2 virus causing it. Researchers from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and UWC’s South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) have sequenced the first SARS-COV-2 genome in South Africa, providing a genetic “fingerprint” that can help us understand and contain the spread of COVID-19.

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