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CRG COVID-19 Viral Beacon Platform

Sep 09, 2020

The Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona has launched COVID-19 Viral Beacon, a platform that lets scientists analyze raw and consensus COVID-19 genomic data from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Illumina, NCBI/SRA, and GISAID. Users can search for specific genetic variants and explore associated metadata.

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