How to track the variants of the pandemic faster

(University of Bern) Specialists in viral and genetic analysis, led by Swiss scientists Dr. Emma Hodcroft at the University of Bern and Prof. Christophe Dessimoz at University of Lausanne, alongside Dr. Nick Goldman at EMBL-EBI in the UK, lay out the 'bioinformatics bottlenecks' that are hindering response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and propose ways to 'clear the road' for better tools and approaches.