An overview of biosurveillance in the UK and the recent collaboration between ONT and the UK government to establish the world's first real-time, pathogen-agnostic biosurveillance system
Thank you! Excited way more for decreased cost of sequencing. 'Sample to result' timelines are quite short already (like one use case of ONT sequencers is brain tumor sampling DURING surgery). I totally envision a future where high-accuracy sequencers with automatic library prep cost £50 or less and are widely used even by citizen scientists.
Nice overview! What are you most excited about? Decreased cost of sequencing or the decreased "sample to result" timeline? If you had to pick one.
Thank you! Excited way more for decreased cost of sequencing. 'Sample to result' timelines are quite short already (like one use case of ONT sequencers is brain tumor sampling DURING surgery). I totally envision a future where high-accuracy sequencers with automatic library prep cost £50 or less and are widely used even by citizen scientists.
I loved this post! Really cool to see a summary of the BSS up there! The Centre for Long-Term Resilience published a 1-year review of the Biological Security Strategy's progress, which might be of interest to you: https://www.longtermresilience.org/reports/independent-progress-tracker-uk-biological-security-strategy/
Thank you! That independent tracker is a really good resource, I'll add it to the blog post!