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12 May 2026
Genomic surveillance analysis with turnaround measured in days, built for public health laboratories that need results while they still matter.
Sequencing capacity for pathogen surveillance expanded sharply across Africa during the COVID-19 response. Analysis capacity did not follow at the same rate, and many national laboratories are now generating sequence faster than they can interpret it.
This is the work our consultants have done most: SARS-CoV-2 lineage assignment, Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance profiling, Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance markers, and outbreak reconstruction for bacterial pathogens. We can work as a standing analysis partner to a surveillance programme, with agreed turnaround per batch.
Each project uses the subset of these that your research question requires.
Reference-based or de novo assembly with primer trimming, coverage assessment and quality flagging — including honest reporting of genomes too incomplete to submit.
Pangolin and Nextclade for SARS-CoV-2, MLST and cgMLST for bacteria, and appropriate typing schemes for other pathogens, with submission-ready output for GISAID, ENA or Pathogenwatch.
Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenies, time-calibrated trees, transmission cluster identification and phylogeographic reconstruction with IQ-TREE, BEAST and Nextstrain.
Resistance gene and mutation detection against CARD, ResFinder, TBProfiler and species-specific databases, reported as an interpretable resistance profile rather than a raw gene list.
Recurring batch analysis with standardised reports and, where wanted, a Nextstrain build your team can host and update.
Typical turnaround: 1–2 weeks per batch; standing surveillance partners get agreed turnaround per run
Indicative price: From $19 per genome for consensus assembly and lineage assignment at batch scale
Reduced rates are available for students and researchers at African public institutions. Every project is quoted in writing before work begins.
Services are provided for research purposes only. They are not intended for clinical diagnosis, treatment decisions or individual health assessment. See how it works, data submission guidelines and what you receive.
Bioinformatics, biostatistics and data science support for research teams across Africa.
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