serratus

Serratus

COVID-19 came out of seemingly nowhere. We will search all SRA sequence data to identify new members of the family Coronaviridae to trace the lineage of SARS-CoV-2.

Objectives

1. Create a phylogenetic tree for coronaviridae with all available sequences.
2. Identify libraries with novel coronaviruses by searching all public data on SRA (~100 PB)
3. Assemble putative coronaviruse genomes and return to step 1)

Github page

We're currently building the framework for very high-efficiency (cost) skimming/alignment of data off of SRA. Since February, SRA has been mirrored to AWS S3, as such we can access all the data for almost no cost using AWS services.