High Throughput SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequencing from 384 Respiratory Samples Using the Illumina COVIDSeq Protocol

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Papa Mze, Nasserdine | Kacel, Idir | Beye, Mamadou | Tola, Raphael | Sarr, Mariéma | Basco, Leonardo | Bogreau, Hervé | Colson, Philippe | Fournier, Pierre-Edouard

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International audience. The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has fostered the use of high-throughput techniques to sequence the entire severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genome and track its evolution. The present study proposes a rapid and relatively less expensive sequencing protocol for 384 samples by adapting the use of an Illumina NovaSeq library to an Illumina MiSeq flow cell instrument. The SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences obtained with Illumina NovaSeq and those obtained using MiSeq instruments were compared with the objective to validate the new, modified protocol. A total of 356 (94.6%) samples yielded interpretable sequences using the modified Illumina COVIDSeq protocol, with an average coverage of 91.6%. By comparison, 357 (94.9%) samples yielded interpretable sequences with the standard COVIDSeq protocol, with an average coverage of 95.6%. Our modified COVIDSeq protocol could save 14,155 euros per run and yield results from 384 samples in 53.5 h, compared to four times 55.5 h with the standard Illumina MiSeq protocol. The modified COVIDSeq protocol thus provides high quality results comparable to those obtained with the standard COVIDSeq protocol, four times faster, while saving money.

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