Evaluation of miniaturized Illumina DNA preparation protocols for SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing

• Sureshnee Pillay ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pillaysureshnee@gmail.com (SP); Giandharij@ukzn.ac.za (JG); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

  Affiliation KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9288-7996

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• James Emmanuel San,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Derek Tshiabuila,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Yeshnee Naidoo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Yusasha Pillay,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Akhil Maharaj,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Ugochukwu J. Anyaneji,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Eduan Wilkinson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Houriiyah Tegally,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Richard J. Lessells,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Center for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

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• Cheryl Baxter,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Center for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6033-7655

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• Tulio de Oliveira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pillaysureshnee@gmail.com (SP); Giandharij@ukzn.ac.za (JG); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Center for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Jennifer Giandhari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pillaysureshnee@gmail.com (SP); Giandharij@ukzn.ac.za (JG); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

  Affiliation KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2944-4583

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