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		amirhirsch on April 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per ... The spike-in DNA injection is clever. How did you develop that technology? It seems like the kind of thing that just hits you one day.

Blahah on April 8, 2020 [–]

It's standard practise in lots of kinds of sequencing experiments to use a spike-in. Makes perfect sense to use it here - in fact all the other sequencing based SARS-CoV-2 tests I've seen also use spike-ins.

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