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CSIRO deploys cloud-based tool for early warning of new COVID-19 variants

Written by Pulse+IT| | Australian eHealth
Scientist working at a sequencing instrument in a genomics laboratory

Researchers from the CSIRO have harnessed Amazon Web Services’ RONIN research computing platform to develop a faster way to identify emerging new COVID-19 variants.

The tool, known as VariantSpark, is able to analyse the DNA of the whole variant, rather than the current method of monitoring changes to the spike protein.

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Filed under Australian eHealth on 7 July 2022. Pulse+IT news briefs cover a single development in Australasian digital health; the weekly editorial column puts the week’s stories in context.

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