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the infectious disease landscape. TALES FROM THE DEEP. how deep sequencing is changing . dr. jennifer gardy leader, molecular epidemiology bc centre for disease control jennifer.gardy@bccdc.ca @ jennifergardy. Disclosures. Honoraria from: CACMID, Trent University, CDC Atlanta
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the infectious disease landscape TALES FROM THE DEEP how deep sequencing is changing dr. jennifergardy leader, molecular epidemiology bc centre for disease control jennifer.gardy@bccdc.ca @jennifergardy
Disclosures • Honoraria from: CACMID, Trent University, CDC Atlanta • Research support from: Provincial Health Services Authority, Genome British Columbia, Genome Canada, CIHR, First Nations and Inuit Health
figure 2. friedrichmiescher. 1869.
DNA’s chemistry phoebuslevine 1919 williamastbury 1937
photo 51. 1952 franklin & gosling
watson & crick
dideoxy sequencing, or chain-termination, looks at end-labelled fragments of DNA to deduce the sequence.
machines like this… …generate output like this
first genome sequenced. h. influenzae, 1995.
sequencing by synthesis enables massively parallel sequencing in real time.
THE PLAYERS life tech. aka ion torrent PGM ionproton illumina aka solexa miseq hiseq GA roche aka 454 GS flex GS junior oxford nanopore minion gridion
figure 4b. a handier comparison. 384,000 bases/day 300 years/human genome VERSUS 600,000,000,000 bases/day 1 day/human genome
we can sequence hundreds of bacterial genomes
or all the viral quasispecies inone host
1. reconstruct outbreaks of communicable disease PMID: 21345102
2. understand epidemic dynamics PMID: 20142485
3. describe a novel pathogen PMID: 21793740
4. develop new molecular typing methods PMID: 22135463
5. understand antimicrobial resistance unpublished data
6. date the time of infection PMID: 218322936
7. date the emergence of a pathogen PMID: 20025195
8. therapeutic monitoring of drug resistance PMID: 20628644
9. describe co-infections PMID: 21326348
10. discover new pathogens or biomarkers PMID: 20463061