PLOS Papers on SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies, Swiss Influenza Spread, Infant Meningitis in Ethiopia

Nov 23, 2020

In PLOS Genetics, an international team led by investigators at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shares strategies for finding and accounting for systematic genome sequencing errors that can affect SARS-CoV-2 phylogenies and insights gleaned from them.

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