Biobot Analytics, in collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks, today announced a successful campaign to sequence over 2,000 wastewater samples across all 50 states for SARS-CoV-2. This groundbreaking research and development effort, initiated as a part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) national wastewater-based disease monitoring program, represents the largest wastewater sequencing effort ever undertaken in the United States.
Biobot initiated its collaborative sequencing effort in May 2021 in order to better understand, measure, and track the spread of COVID-19 variants across the country, knowing that wastewater-based epidemiology (“WBE”) can also be used as a tool to complement genomic epidemiology.
