“We kept learners engaged in a virtual setting” – Our COG-Train educators tell us about their experience
COG-Train provides open-access learning in SARS-CoV-2 genomics and is facilitating an increase in global genome sequencing and analysis capacity, reducing sequencing inequality, and helping to enhance pathogen surveillance. With two...
Bioinformatics for pathogen surveillance: Launching our third COG-Train online course
Launch of our third COG-Train online course "Making sense of genomic data: COVID-19 web-based bioinformatics". Explore the tools for web-based SARS-CoV-2 sequencing analyses and learn techniques to prepare data and...
Maximising access to SARS-CoV-2 bioinformatics training: What are distributed classrooms?
COG-Train’s ambition is to provide high quality, open-access training across the world, on all aspects of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and bioinformatics. Key to this is having a model which supports a...
Diaries of SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Training: in Conversation with COG-Train Educators
The recently launched COG-Train programme is an open-access educational initiative focused on providing impactful learning opportunities around SARS-CoV-2 genomics to a global audience. We spoke to two educators who took...
A shared vision of future pandemic preparedness: WHO’s 10-year strategy and the COG-Train Programme
WHO’s recently published global strategy for the genomic surveillance of pathogens offers a practical framework for future pandemic preparedness, which COG-Train is already starting to deliver on.
Answering public health questions with testing and sequencing strategies. Learn more with our second COG-Train course ‘From Swab to Server’
How do sequencing experts decide upon their testing and analysis strategy? Our second COG-Train online course “From Swab to Server: Testing, Sequencing, and Sharing During a Pandemic” will take you...
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21 Apr 2022
“The coverage of our work re-ignited people’s interest in science” – in conversation with Dr Senjuti Saha
For our April Women in COG event, the team hosted a discussion with Dr Senjuti Saha, a molecular microbiologist who is currently Director at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF)...
Reflecting on the launch of our first COG-Train online course
Genome sequencing enabled the world to rapidly identify SARS-CoV-2, classify variants and develop diagnostic tests and other tools to help manage the outbreak, yet how genome sequencing and analysis works...
How global collaboration and genomics training will better prepare us to tackle COVID-19 variants and future pandemics
The global response to COVID-19 variants during the current pandemic has highlighted the need for open scientific collaboration. Providing training tools to help countries establish or expand their own SARS-CoV-2...
First-of-its-Kind Global COVID-19 Genomics Training Programme Launched
The first course in our new global training programme on SARS-CoV-2 genomics and biodata was launched on the 7th February, 2022.
News: COG-UK and WCS receive funding for a global training programme in SARS-CoV-2 genomics
The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium and Wellcome Connecting Science (WCS) are delighted to have been jointly awarded a ‘Wellcome-FCDO Joint Initiative on Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response grant’...
