Software rapidly tracks viral variants with high accuracy to aid outbreak responses

It was mid-2020, and Patrick Varilly, a bundle technologist and information scientist, was stuck astatine home, anxious to assistance the satellite navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He reconnected with Pardis Sabeti, a halfway institute subordinate of the Broad Institute who was astatine the forefront of analyzing however the SARS-CoV-2 microorganism was spreading, and with Ben Fry, her longstanding collaborator and main astatine Fathom Information Design, a bundle steadfast known for tackling analyzable information problems. Varilly had worked intimately with Sabeti and Fry astatine MIT much than 20 years earlier.