What are the challenges that hinder the building of a sustainable system for genomic surveillance?
Answer: The process of constantly monitoring pathogens and analyzing their genetic similarities and differences to identify the variants of concern is called genomic surveillance.
The challenges that hinder the building of a sustainable system for genomic surveillance are as follows:
- Lack of technological know-how to understand complexities of genomics
- Inadequate and unskilled workforce
- Rise in number of newly emerging variants makes the understanding of their nature and trends difficult via the existing genomic surveillance tools.
- Lack of mechanisms to synchronize genomic surveillance outputs with epidemiological and clinical surveillance findings
- Absence of mechanisms for integration of genomic data with metadata from multiple sources
- Lack of skills ....
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