Loop Genomics has launched a new service for long-read sequencing of long amplicons of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, leveraging their ability to generate long-amplicon sequencing reads using Illumina sequencers and delivering long-read data with error rates that enable strain and quasi-species resolution.
“SARS-CoV-2 has a 30kb long genome, which is at the very high end of genome size for RNA viruses. Characterizing the significance of different strains and quasi-species with mutations thousands of base pairs apart requires ultra-high fidelity long-reads and is therefore often overlooked due to the limitations of short read sequencing. Loop Genomics’ ultra-low error rate long-reads provides the viral genome sequencing resolution needed to better understand SARS-CoV-2 biology and facilitate epidemiology as well as drug and vaccine development efforts”. says Tuval Ben Yehezkel PhD, CEO and founder of Loop Genomics.
Loop’s service lab leverages existing Illumina short-read infrastructure and its software to generate SARS ...
