Alcov: Estimating Variant of Concern Abundance from SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Sequencing Data
Ellmen, I.; Lynch, M. D. J.; Nash, D.; Cheng, J.; Nissimov, J. I.; Charles, T. C.
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Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater is an important strategy for community level surveillance. Variants of concern (VOCs) can be detected in the wastewater samples using next generation sequencing, however it can be challenging to determine the relative abundance of different VOCs since the reads cannot be assembled into complete genomes. Here, we present Alcov (abundance learning of SARS-CoV-2 variants), a tool that uses mutation frequencies in SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data to predict the distribution of VOC lineages in the sample. We used Alcov to predict the distributions of lineages from three wastewater samples which agreed well with clinical data. By predicting not just which VOCs are present, but their relative abundances in the population, Alcov extracts a more complete snapshot of the variants which are circulating in a community.
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