Áine O'Toole, Rachel Colquhoun, Corey Ansley, Catherine Troman, Daniel Maloney, Zoe Vance, Joyce Akello, Erika Bujaki, Manasi Majumdar, Adnan Khurshid, Yasir Arshad, Muhammad Masroor Alam, Javier Martin, Alexander G Shaw, Nicholas C Grassly, Andrew Rambaut
Widespread surveillance, rapid detection, and appropriate intervention will be critical for successful eradication of poliovirus. Using deployable next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches, such as Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinION, the time from sample to result can be significantly reduced compared to cell culture and Sanger sequencing. We developed piranha (poliovirus investigation resource automating nanopore haplotype analysis), a 'sequencing reads-to-report' solution to aid routine poliovirus testing of both stool and environmental samples and alleviate the bioinformatic bottleneck that often exists for laboratories adopting novel NGS approaches...
2024: Virus Evolution