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. 2021 Jan 7;184(1):64–75.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.020
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Critical Commercial Assays

2019-nCoV_N1 assay RT-qPCR assay (FDA https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download) Cat # 2019-nCoVEUA-01
NEB Luna Universal Probe One-Step Reaction Mix and Enzyme Mix (New England Biolabs, Herts, UK) Cat # E3006S
Applied Biosystems™ 7500 Fast PCR instrument running SDS software v2.3 (ThermoFisher Scientific) Cat # 4351106

Deposited Data

GISAID (Shu and McCauley, 2017) https://www.gisaid.org
European Bioinformatics Institute (Rodriguez-Tomé and Stoehr, 1996) https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
Issues with SARS CoV-2 Sequencing Data (De Maio et al.). https://github.com/W-L/ProblematicSites_SARS-CoV2/blob/master/problematic_sites_sarsCov2.vcf
A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology (Rambaut et al., 2020) https://cov-lineages.org/lineages/

Oligonucleotides

ARTIC V3 primers https://github.com/joshquick/artic-ncov2019/blob/master/primer_schemes/nCoV-2019/V3/nCoV-2019.tsv Available from IDT: https://eu.idtdna.com/pages/landing/coronavirus-research-reagents/ngs-assays

Software and Algorithms

R 3.6.3 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing http://www.R-project.org
BEAST1 v1.10.5 (Suchard et al., 2018) https://beast.community/
Tracer (Rambaut et al., 2018) https://beast.community/
BEAST2 PhyDyn (Bouckaert et al., 2019; Volz and Siveroni, 2018) https://github.com/mrc-ide/PhyDyn
ARTIC network protocol ARTIC network https://artic.network/ncov-2019
R packages (treedater 0.5.1, ape package v. 5.3, brms v. 2.13.5, rstan v. 2.21.2, SPIn v. 1.1, skygrowth 0.3.1) (Paradis and Schliep, 2019; Volz and Frost, 2017; Bürkner, 2018; Stan Development Team, 2020; Liu et al., 2015; Volz and Didelot, 2018) http://www.R-project.org; https://github.com/mrc-ide/skygrowth
IQtree 1.6.12 (Minh et al., 2020; Rambaut et al., 2020) http://www.iqtree.org/
MRC-CLIMB (Connor et al., 2016) https://www.climb.ac.uk/
Nextflow pipeline for processing/assembly of ARTIC protocol amplicons https://github.com/connor-lab/ncov2019-artic-nf https://github.com/connor-lab/ncov2019-artic-nf