The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance is a computational genomics research institute in Oxfordshire.
History The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance opened in 2015 as a joint project between Imperial College London and Wellcome Sanger Institute. In 2017 it was announced that the centre would house a new Global Health Research Unit funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to look at antibiotic resistance. This has seen the centre becoming involved with surveillance of antibiotic resistance in a number of countries, for example, the Philippines.
From 2018 to 2021 the Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Oxford co-hosted the CGPS. From September 2021 the CGPS has been based at the University of Oxford.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the centre received funding as part of the COG-UK consortium.
On 22 September 2022 it was announced that the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, part of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford, was awarded funding worth £7m for their work as an NIHR Global Health Research Unit (GHRU) for the next five years. The Centre’s research and capacity building work focuses on delivering genomics and enabling data for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Structure The centre's director is David Aanensen.Professor David Aanensen, Director of the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance and Group Leader www.sanger.ac.uk, accessed 7 March 2021 David Aanensen Director of The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance 2021 www.ndm.ox.ac.uk, accessed 7 March 2021
In 2019, it was agreed that there would be collaboration between the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, towards improving the monitoring and tracking of infectious diseases across Europe.Commitment to collaborate on using genomics for pathogen surveillance across Europe 14 March 2019 www.sanger.ac.uk, accessed 7 March 2021
Applications created at the centre Under the auspices of the centre, the Epicollect5 (used for data entry from distributed observers, e.g. by 'citizen science' programs), Microreact,Hospitals in Europe are contributing to the spread of extremely drug-resistant bacteria 30 July 2019, www.zmescience.com, accessed 8 March 2021Superbug infections tracked across Europe 5 May 2016 www.sciencedaily.com, accessed 8 March 2021 and Pathogenwatch applications have been generated and shared. Microreact"Microreact has been developed by the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance at Imperial College London and the Wellcome Genome Campus" microreact.org, accessed 8 March 2021 has seen extensive use during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is a component of the Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak Lineages (pangolin) software tool.How the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium sequenced Sars-Cov-2 12 April 2021 www.computerweekly.com, accessed 26 May 2021
Location The centre is located at the Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.
See also List of phylogenetic tree visualization software Microbial Genomics Ineos Oxford Institute for AMR Research Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource
References
External links CGPS Latest News | Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance hosted at GitLab.com