Managing and monitoring a pandemic: showcasing a practical approach for the genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.

With the rapidly growing amount of biological data, powerful but also flexible data management and visualization systems are of increasingly crucial importance. The COVID-19 pandemic has more than highlighted this need and the challenges scientists are facing. Here, we provide an example and a step-by-step template for non-IT personnel to easily implement an intuitive, interactive data management solution to manage and visualize the high influx of biological samples and associated metadata in a laboratory setting.

Corrigendum: poreCov - An Easy to Use, Fast, and Robust Workflow for SARS CoV-2 Genome Reconstruction Nanopore Sequencing.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.

poreCov-An Easy to Use, Fast, and Robust Workflow for SARS-CoV-2 Genome Reconstruction Nanopore Sequencing.

In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a highly increased sequencing effort has been established worldwide to track and trace ongoing viral evolution. Technologies, such as nanopore sequencing the ARTIC protocol are used to reliably generate genomes from raw sequencing data as a crucial base for molecular surveillance. However, for many labs that perform SARS-CoV-2 sequencing, bioinformatics is still a major bottleneck, especially if hundreds of samples need to be processed in a recurring fashion.