The Conversation
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Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story
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Genome sequencing has revolutionized disease outbreak investigation by revealing pathogen origins and transmission patterns, but the article argues that understanding spread requires social and contextual information beyond genetic data alone.
Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story
A pathogen's genome acts as a biological record of where it came from and how it spread. Westend61/Getty Images
Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study outbreaks by allowing them to read a pathogen’s genes as a biological record of where it came from and how it spread.
One way to think about sequencing is to imagine a virus or bacteria’s
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