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SUMMARY:Developing an outbreak scanning tool to identify sars-cov-2 varian
 ts of interest - Olivia Boyd\, Imperial College London
DTSTART:20210305T150000Z
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CONTACT:Theodora Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Description of talk:Identifying the emergence of lineages and 
 variants of interest in the on-going sars-cov-2 pandemic is of great conce
 rn\, particularly in the context of antigenic and vaccine escape. This tal
 k will present three statistical methods incorporated into a outbreak scan
 ning tool for identifying clusters\, lineages\, or variants of concern wit
 h high growth rates. Furthermore\, this talk will showcase a preliminary p
 ublic-facing scanning tool where results from these methods can be filtere
 d by statistical cut-off\, lineage\, or mutation of interest to identify p
 otential variants or mutations linked to increased growth rates in the on-
 going outbreak.
LOCATION:Venue to be confirmed
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