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Indian Scientists working on novel Coronavirus genome sequencing: DST

New Delhi,Apr 8 (UNI) Two institutes of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad and Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi have started working together on the whole genome sequencing of novel coronavirus or COVID 19 , an official statement said here on Wednesday.
“This will help us to understand the evolution of the virus, how dynamic is it and how fast it imitates. This study will help us to know how fast it evolves and what are the future aspects of it” CCMB Director Dr Rakesh Mishra said.
Whole-genome sequencing is the method used to determine the complete DNA sequence of a specific organism’s genome. The approach for sequencing the latest coronavirus involves getting samples from patients that have are found to be positive and sending these samples to a sequencing centre.
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