Consortium of national labs to upscale genome sequencing
The Hindu
‘Continuously monitoring the situation in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune’
A consortium of national laboratories across four city clusters of Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Pune performing genomic surveillance of coronavirus is in the process of upscaling the work as part of the national efforts led by Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), said top scientist Rakesh Mishra, the former director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) on Friday.
Dr. Mishra, who is now the director of Tata Institute for Genetics and Society and is continuing to conduct research at his lab here, said the consortium is “continuously monitoring the situation in all the four cities and has upscaled its efforts to sequence as many samples as possible”.
Apart from the CCMB and the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru, the consortium includes CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi, and the Pune Knowledge Cluster-Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, and CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, also in Pune.