GenomeWeb: Australia's CSIRO Looks Beyond Spike Protein to ID New COVID-19 Variants to be Monitored

CHICAGO – Bioinformaticians in Australia are calling for a change in how epidemiologists monitor and predict new COVID-19 variants, using analytics software to sort through entire viral variant genomes rather than simply looking for changes in the gene encoding the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The researchers hope that this technology could underpin a future global infectious disease surveillance network. [..]