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Global Pathogen Analysis Service

GPAS is building analysis platforms that enable accurate detection and monitoring of infectious diseases, empowering an ‘Always On’ early warning system of potential outbreaks, and improve health outcomes for everyone, wherever they live.
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Infectious Diseases and AMR are among the greatest challenges of our time

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, global travel, and changing land use are dramatically increasing the risk of emerging infectious diseases.

Between 2025 and 2050, 39 million lives are forecast to be lost to antimicrobial resistance (AMR)—equivalent to the population of Canada (source: University of Oxford).
Additionally, there is a 27.5% probability of a pandemic occurring within the next 10 years, putting millions of lives and trillions of dollars at risk (source: Airfinity).

GPAS is targeting the millions of lives lost through the inappropriate treatment of infectious diseases and the avoidable escalation from local outbreaks to pandemics.

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GPAS Bioinformatic Analysis Platform

In partnership with the University of Oxford, globally renowned for their expertise in pathogens, and Oracle, world leaders in cloud data management, we have delivered an industry leading, fully automated genomic analysis platform with secure, scalable cloud data management.

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Mycobacteria Pipeline
The Mycobacterium analysis includes species identification, lineage calling, identification of related isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complexes and resistance prediction to 15 drugs. The pipeline can also analyse 190 non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs).

Its features and advantages include: human read removal, the transformational speed of its complete analysis & alignment to the WHO V2 catalogue.

Supported NGS Technologies: Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (experimental)

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SARS-CoV-2 Pipeline

The SARS-CoV-2 analysis includes consensus genome assembly, lineage assignment, and identification of related isolates, for SARS-CoV-2 sequenced using tiled amplicon sequencing.

Its features and benefits include human read removal, the transformational speed of its complete analysis & phylogenetic relatedness.

Supported Technologies: Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

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Professor Sir John Bell

Professor Sir John Bell

President EIT Oxford
“The Ellison Institute of Technology is a new kind of organisation – not a university, not a charity. We build self-sustaining commercial entities designed to solve the world’s most challenging problems”.