{"id":131598,"date":"2021-09-04T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=131598"},"modified":"2021-09-04T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T11:48:00","slug":"genome-sequencing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/genome-sequencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Genome sequencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is whole genome sequencing (WGS)?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The genome, or genetic material, of an organism (bacteria, virus, potato, human) is made up of DNA. Each organism has a unique DNA sequence which is composed of bases (A, T, C, and G). If you know the sequence of the bases in an organism, you have identified its unique DNA fingerprint, or pattern.\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Determining the order of bases is called sequencing<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Whole genome sequencing is a<strong> laboratory procedure<\/strong> that determines the order of bases in the genome of an organism in one process.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is the purpose of\u00a0Genome\u00a0sequencing?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The main purpose of sequencing is <strong>surveillance<\/strong>. It helps\u00a0to\u00a0get the true picture of prevailing variants, emerging variants (some of which, like delta, may lead to fresh surges) and those causing reinfection and vaccine breakthrough, impacting vaccine efficacy.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is whole genome sequencing (WGS)?\u00a0 The genome, or genetic material, of an organism (bacteria, virus, potato, human) is made up of DNA. Each organism has a unique DNA sequence which is composed of bases (A, T, C, and G). If you know the sequence of the bases in an organism, you have identified its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/genome-sequencing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genome sequencing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131598","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}