Title:
How to Battle an Epidemic? Digitize Its DNA and Share It With the World
Author:
Shelly Xuelai Fan, PhD
Published:
SingularityHub, 26 February 2020
From the article:
"A virus's genetic blueprint is the first clue to its origins and traints. The response to Covid-19 was extremely rapid. Within a month of the first identified case in Wuhan, Chinese scientists had deposited the virus's partial genetic blueprint into genBank, an online, widely-consulted database.
Almost immediately, scientists from all sectors - academic, biotech, government - around the world began ordering parts of the virus genome online to study in their own labs."
To read this article:
https://singularityhub.com/2020/02/26/how-to-battle-an-epidemic-digitize-its-dna-and-share-it-with-the-world/