Industry News: The ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks underscore the importance of SARS-CoV-2 variant detection and tracking

As the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to spread and evolve, notably SARS-CoV-2 variants such as Delta, Delta Plus, Alpha that increase the transmissibility and decrease the effectiveness of diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics have caused surges in global COVID-19 cases. 

To strengthen actions in epidemical control regarding the SARS-CoV-2 variants, WHO has classified them into 'Variants of Concern (VOC)' or 'Variants of Interest (VOI)' with a series of actions and measures. 

Under such circumstances, a leading IVD raw materials and one-stop solution organization, Fapon Biotech, introduced the GRASPlex SARS-CoV-2 Full Length Genome Panel for SARS-CoV-2 known and emerging variant detection, virus source identification, mutation monitoring, study virus evolution, and others. 

Product features & benefits

• 99% coverage of the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome 
• Enrichment & library sequencing in one tube, two-step
• Uniformity and on-target rate over 95%
• Various forms of cooperation to provide different modules & bioinformatic analysis service
• Reduction in pre-sequencing cost

Product performance

1. The sequencing output is more than 2M reads with Mapping Rate >99%, Ontarget Rate >95% and Uniformity Rate >95%

2. High uniformity with low copy number inputs 

3. Excellent detection correlation between sample templates of different copy numbers

4. High-depth coverage of SARS-CoV-2 variant key mutation sites

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