{"id":7586,"date":"2020-04-20T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2020-04-20T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:17:34","slug":"the-whole-genome-sequencing-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/the-whole-genome-sequencing-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole-Genome sequencing of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image1.slideserve.com\/2411766\/genome-sequencing-app-of-dna-technologies-l.jpg\" alt=\"PPT - Genome Sequencing &amp; App. of DNA Technologies PowerPoint ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 One more institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has started the whole-genome sequencing of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chandigarh-based Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) has taken up the task of large-scale genome sequencing of the virus. Earlier, the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and the Institute of Genomics and Integrated Biology had started working on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>The whole-genome sequencing is a method used to determine the complete DNA sequence of a specific organism\u2019s genome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The complete genome sequence information will enable researchers to gain insights about the origins of the virus, the different types of strains circulating in India and how it has spread across the length and breadth of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The genomic resource obtained from this sequencing will also allow identification of new targets for diagnosis and drugs for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 So far, 9000 samples have been sequenced internationally as per Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) \u2013 a public platform started by the WHO in 2008 for countries to share genome sequences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/ngspresentation-161002025605\/95\/ngs-presentation-14-638.jpg?cb=1475377127\" alt=\"Ngs presentation\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? \u2022 One more institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7587,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/7587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}