And in the past week, two groups of geneticists, one at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the other at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, have succeeded in sequencing the genomes of coronaviruses isolated from patients in Toronto and Asia.

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In the work of NCBI Staff Scientist and genomics expert Martin Shumway, distilling these large volumes of raw sequencing data requires more sophisticated computing algorithms, intensive quality control and indexing for online searchability by the science community.

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