Executive summary: The NAO (Nucleic Acid Observatory) reports significant progress in wastewater sequencing initiatives, lab capabilities, and pathogen detection methods while transitioning to become a project of SecureBio.
Key points:
Expanded wastewater sequencing operations across multiple sites, including new collaborations with PHC Global and CDC’s Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program
Developed new analysis tools including seeded assembly for flagged reads and reference-based growth detection for viral abundance monitoring
Completed nucleic acid tracer experiments, finding that untargeted metagenomic sequencing would require prohibitively large quantities
Successfully spun out from MIT to become a SecureBio project, established new lab space at Tufts Launchpad Biolabs
Released METAGENE-1, a 7B parameter metagenomic foundation model for anomaly detection in collaboration with USC researchers
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Executive summary: The NAO (Nucleic Acid Observatory) reports significant progress in wastewater sequencing initiatives, lab capabilities, and pathogen detection methods while transitioning to become a project of SecureBio.
Key points:
Expanded wastewater sequencing operations across multiple sites, including new collaborations with PHC Global and CDC’s Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program
Developed new analysis tools including seeded assembly for flagged reads and reference-based growth detection for viral abundance monitoring
Completed nucleic acid tracer experiments, finding that untargeted metagenomic sequencing would require prohibitively large quantities
Successfully spun out from MIT to become a SecureBio project, established new lab space at Tufts Launchpad Biolabs
Released METAGENE-1, a 7B parameter metagenomic foundation model for anomaly detection in collaboration with USC researchers
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