The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, CCMB and the Institute of Genetics and Integrated Biology, IGIB, along with a few other institutions, are working for the digital and molecular surveillance of the spread of novel coronavirus to understand the biology, epidemiology and disease impact.
The centre would be established at IGIB where all the labs, research centres and hospitals will share their data through cloud sharing.
The surveillance will be done at three levels: the virus, the patient and the clinical course of the patient. Surveillance at the virus level refers to the genome of the virus. For this, CCMB plays a major role, as it would provide the genome sequences.
Director of CCMB, Dr Rakesh Mishra said, they will be providing information on genome sequencing and sample testing. He said, as they are doing widespread testing, they can provide the sample results that can be used for understanding the spread, the isolates, and a variety of related information.
The second part deals with the patient data, that is details of the patients looking at the clinical samples. The clinical course details would be clinical care data or hospital data that leads to outcomes.
Director of IGIB Dr Anurag Agarwal said, they are working with the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC for pan-India representation for all these things and we are working with the local hospitals also.
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