System structure and sourcing samples

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. 

Description: This post models how an effective biosurveillance system might work in the US using metagenomic sequencing (MGS). Metagenomic sequencing can read out any nucleic acid (RNA or DNA) in a sample. Analyzing these fragments allows the identification of both known pathogens as well as unknown reads that could represent a new threat. 

Original Text: https://naobservatory.org/blog/biothreat_radar/

Author(s): Simon Grimm, Lennart Justen, and Jeff Kaufman. 

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