Accurate Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern with an Assay that is Resilient to Genomic Variation
Application Note
NGS
SARS-CoV-2 surveillance efforts are facilitated by technologies that extract the viral genome from the patient sample background. Effective surveillance tools should be able to detect variants that have deviated from the original virus strain. The SARS-CoV-2 NGS Assay—RUO is a hybridization capture-based assay featuring the Twist SARS-CoV-2 Research Panel and Biotia COVID-DX (v1.6) software. Here, we highlight the ability of this assay to detect the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in clinical samples, which emerged over a year after the panel’s design.