Mobilisation and analyses of publicly available SARS-CoV-2 data for pandemic responses

Nadim Rahman*, Colman O'cathail*, Ahmad Zyoud, Alexey Sokolov, Bas Oude Munnink, Björn Grüning, Carla Cummins, Clara Amid, David F. Nieuwenhuijse, Dávid Visontai, David Yu Yuan, Dipayan Gupta, Divyae K. Prasad, Gábor Máté Gulyás, Gabriele Rinck, Jasmine McKinnon, Jeena Rajan, Jeff Knaggs, Jeffrey Edward Skiby, József StégerJudit Szarvas, Khadim Gueye, Krisztián Papp, Maarten Hoek, Manish Kumar, Marianna A. Ventouratou, Marie Catherine Bouquieaux, Martin Koliba, Milena Mansurova, Muhammad Haseeb, Nathalie Worp, Peter W. Harrison, Rasko Leinonen, Ross Thorne, Sandeep Selvakumar, Sarah Hunt, Sundar Venkataraman, Suran Jayathilaka, Timothée Cezard, Wolfgang Maier, Zahra Waheed, Zamin Iqbal, Frank Møller Aarestrup, Istvan Csabai, Marion Koopmans, Tony Burdett, Guy Cochrane*

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen large-scale pathogen genomic sequencing efforts, becoming part of the toolbox for surveillance and epidemic research. This resulted in an unprecedented level of data sharing to open repositories, which has actively supported the identification of SARS-CoV-2 structure, molecular interactions, mutations and vari-ants, and facilitated vaccine development and drug reuse studies and design. The European COVID-19 Data Platform was launched to support this data sharing, and has resulted in the deposition of several million SARS-CoV-2 raw reads. In this paper we describe (1) open data sharing, (2) tools for submission, analysis, visualisation and data claiming (e.g. ORCiD), (3) the systematic analysis of these datasets, at scale via the SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs as well as (4) lessons learnt. This paper describes a component of the Platform, the SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs, which enable the extension and set up of infrastructure that we intend to use more widely in the future for pathogen surveillance and pandemic preparedness.

Original languageEnglish
Article number001188
JournalMicrobial Genomics
Volume10
Issue number2
Number of pages21
ISSN2057-5858
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • SARS-CoV- 2
  • COVID-19
  • Open data
  • Data sharing
  • Genomics sequencing
  • Emerging variants

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