The COVID-19 pandemic has driven global coordination of SARS-CoV-2 resequencing to understand emergence, evolution, and transmission of the virus.
To date, more than one million sequences have been deposited into global databases from all corners of the world. The approaches developed for rapid data generation and distribution have great potential for repurposing for other purposes, including environmental surveillance.
This presentation will discuss our current work spanning both pathogen genomics and environmental DNA, and outline needs in order to drive global efforts for biodiversity monitoring.