Genomics Institute tool becomes primary method to identify lineages of COVID-19 worldwide

Widespread use of the “UShER” tool will enable public health officials to more accurately identify and track the virus’s variants

Emily Cerf | UCSC | April 4, 2022

As COVID-19 continues to mutate, software developed and maintained at the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Genomics Institute will now be at the core of the primary tool used by health officials worldwide to track the spread of variants in their community. It is now the default software behind the ubiquitously used tool Pangolin, replacing previous software to more accurately assign genomic samples of COVID-19 to a known branch on the virus’s family tree.

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