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. 2021 Mar 30;184(10):2587–2594.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.052
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Critical commercial assays

Helix ® COVID-19 Test Helix EUA201636
TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit Thermo Fisher Cat#A47814
Illumina CovidSeq Test Illumina 1000000128490 v01
MagMAX Viral/Pathogen II Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit Thermo Fisher Cat#A48383
Omega BioTek MagBind Viral DNA/RNA Kit Omega Biotek Cat#M6246-03
Nextera XT Illumina Cat#FC-131-1096
Illumina NextSeq with 500/550 Mid Output Kit v2.5 Illumina Cat#20024908
Illumina NovaSeq 6000 with SP Reagent Kit v1.5 Illumina Cat#20028400
Nanopore MinION KAPA HyperPrep kit Roche Cat#07962363001
End-repair and Ligation Sequencing Kit Oxford Nanopore Cat#SQK-LSK109
Quick-DNA/RNA Viral MagBead kit Zymo Research Cat#R2141
Illumina NovaSeq 6000 S4 flow cell & Reagent Kit v1.5 Illumina Cat#20044417
Illumina NovaSeq Xp 4-lane Kit v1.5 Illumina Cat#20042337
Omega BioTex MagBind Viral DNA/RNA Kit Omega Biotek Cat#M6246-03
KindFisher Flex Purification System Thermo Fisher Cat#5400630
Protoscript First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit NEB Cat#E6560L
Q5 Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase Kit NEB Cat #0493L
NEBNext Ultra II DNA Library Kit for Illumina NEB Cat#E7645L
MiSeq Reagent Kit V2 Illumina Cat#MS-102-2002

Deposited data

SARS-CoV-2 reference genome NCBI NCBI: NC_045512.2
B.1.1.7 first identified sequence GISAID GISAID: EPI_ISL_601443
B.1.1.7 outgroup NCBI NCBI: NC_045512
BEAST XML and log files This paper https://github.com/andersen-lab/paper_2021_early-b117-usa
Non-US B.1.1.7 and additional B.1.1 lineage sequences GISAID Data S2
US B.1.1.7 sequences This paper; GISAID Data S2
SGTF and B117 ongoing Summary Level Data This paper Data S2; https://github.com/myhelix/helix-covid19db

Oligonucleotides

SARS-CoV-2 primers Quick et al., 2017 N/A
NEBNext Multiplex Oligos for Illumina NEB Cat#E6440L
ARTIC Network n-CoV-19 V3 primers ARTIC Network https://github.com/artic-network/artic-ncov2019/tree/master/primer_schemes/nCoV-2019/V3

Software and algorithms

DRAGEN COVIDSeq Test Pipeline v.1.3.0.28 Illumina N/A
Pangolin v2.0 O’Toole et al., 2021b https://github.com/cov-lineages/pangolin
NextClade v0.12.0 Hadfield et al., 2018 https://github.com/nextstrain/nextclade
Iqtree2 Minh et al., 2020 https://github.com/iqtree/iqtree2
BEASTv1.10.5pre Suchard et al., 2018 https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc/tree/v1.10.5pre_thorney_v0.1.0
BEAGLE Ayres et al., 2019 https://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.html#download
baltic https://github.com/evogytis/baltic
Chiu lab genome assembly & variant calling Deng et al., 2020 N/A
Andersen Lab consensus calling for nanopore data https://github.com/artic-network/artic-ncov2019
Snakemake Köster and Rahmann, 2012 https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
bwa-mem Li, 2013 https://github.com/lh3/bwa
iVar v1.2.2 Grubaugh et al., 2019b https://github.com/andersen-lab/ivar/releases/tag/v1.2.2
Transmissibility estimation Volz et al., 2021 N/A
Conditional reference prior for overall clock rate Ferreira and Suchard, 2008 N/A