Scientists Release Ebola Sequencing Data to Global Research Community Online

BUSINESS WIRE                                                                       June 3, 2015
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A team of scientists that is part of an international, multi-organizational effort to curb further spread of deadly Ebola in Sierra Leone has released their first dataset of the virus’ genetic structure online.

The genetic analysis is now on virological.organd available for the global scientific community to monitor the pathogen’s evolution in real-time and conduct research that can lead to more effective strategies against further outbreaks.

The team of British scientists, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is using semi-conductor next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to generate data in a lab facilitated by Public Health England and International Medical Corps.

Following two stints volunteering in a diagnostic laboratory attached to an Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in one of the worst affected parts of Sierra Leone, Ian Goodfellow, Ph.D., head of Virology at the University of Cambridge, returned a third time to study the virus at a molecular level using the advanced NGS platform. Paul Kellam, Ph.D., professor of the Virus Genomics laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, leads the team focused on mapping the genomic data generated by Goodfellow and his colleagues.

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