{"id":240372,"date":"2026-07-06T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/innovative-algorithm-makes-genomic-surveillance-faster-and-more-affordable-for-global-disease-outbreaks"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:07:25","slug":"innovative-algorithm-makes-genomic-surveillance-faster-and-more-affordable-for-global-disease-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/innovative-algorithm-makes-genomic-surveillance-faster-and-more-affordable-for-global-disease-outbreaks","title":{"rendered":"Innovative algorithm makes genomic surveillance faster and more affordable for global disease outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/innovative-algorithm-makes-genomic-surveillance-faster-and-more-affordable-for-global-disease-outbreaks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genomic surveillance\u2014the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens\u2014is one of the most important tools for detecting emerging viral threats. But global surveillance systems remain costly, unevenly distributed and often are too slow to identify dangerous variants before they spread internationally, amplifying future disease outbreak threats.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-70664-0\" target=\"_blank\">recently published research paper<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, co-authored by Dr. Patricia Ning, assistant statistics professor, and Jifan Li, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Statistics, along with collaborators from multiple international institutions, introduces a new framework to address these issues while using fewer resources, making genomic surveillance rapid and cost-effective in preparation for new strains of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Ning\u2019s algorithm works to strengthen local, community-based surveillance capacity in all regions in anticipation of future pandemics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genomic surveillance\u2014the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens\u2014is one of the most important tools for detecting emerging viral threats. But global surveillance systems remain costly, unevenly distributed and often are too slow to identify dangerous variants before they spread internationally, amplifying future disease outbreak threats. A recently published research paper in Nature Communications, co-authored by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}