/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1837/all en /newsroom/channels/news/new-partnership-unravel-genetic-sequence-sars-cov-2-virus-quebec-321890 <p>The <a href="http://www.inspq.qc.ca">Institut national de santé publique du Québec</a> (INSPQ) and the McGill Genome Centre today announced they will partner to sequence the viral genomes of Quebec patients with COVID-19 disease. The collaboration, termed “Coronavirus Sequencing in Quebec,” (CoVSeQ) is led by Profs Sandrine Moreira, Hugues Charest and Michel Roger at the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec (LSPQ) of the INSPQ. The viral samples are taken from a Quebec viral biobank, termed the CoVBanQ, which is hosted in LSPQ.</p> Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:53:45 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 209574 at /newsroom