14) Mega labs

Question 1

What are Mega labs ?

Answer 1

These are labs that use Next Generation Sequencing Machines (NGS) which are normally used for sequencing human genomes to sequence 1500 to 3000 viral genomes at a go to detect the SARS COV-2 virus

Question 2

Who is developing these labs ?

Answer 2

CSIR – To ramp up the testing for COVID 19 as well as improve the accuracy rate

Question 3

Does it allow parallel sequencing ?

Answer 3

YESSS