Letter: Department of Bioscience Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) is likely to get a genome sequencing facility especially to test the Covid-19 variant.
VNSGU officials claimed that they had not received any confirmation, but the name of the University Department had been declared a possible center by the Central Government Science and Technology Department.
“We have not received official confirmation of the agent agent The previous department has proposed the central government and the Gujarat biotechnology research center (Fig), Gandhinagar, to allow the genome sequencing in their laboratory.
“We have sequencers in our department and we have sent an interest expression.
If we get approval, the government will give us a kit and only after that we can start sequencing,” the official said.
The VNSGU department is likely to get approval for genome sequencing
