A short plus long-amplicon based sequencing approach improves genomic coverage and variant detection in the SARS-CoV-2 genome

• Carlos Arana,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Microbiome and Genomics core, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Chaoying Liang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Microbiome and Genomics core, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Matthew Brock,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Microbiome and Genomics core, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Bo Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Jinchun Zhou,

  Roles Project administration, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Microbiome and Genomics core, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Li Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Brandi Cantarel,

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Jeffrey SoRelle,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Lora V. Hooper,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Prithvi Raj

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: prithvi.raj@utsouthwestern.edu

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Microbiome and Genomics core, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4068-4358

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