Covidkon: NGS analysis of circulating SARS-CoV-2 strains

At the 1st Czecho-Slovak Covid-19 Conference MUDr. Soňa Peková, Ph.D. presents laboratory data on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which show an unprecedented variability of the virus in a short period of time. She returns to questions of the origin of the virus and describes the non-standard behavior of the virus, where individual waves in a closed area lose mutations of the previous wave. She sheds light on the principles of synthetic genomics and the questions they raise in the context of the covid-19 epidemic, as well as the general risks and ethical issues associated with synthetic genome interventions.