Future
GPAS Ltd will launch services for more pathogens, including foodborne diseases and influenza, and will expand the utility of the toolset beyond clinical research and public health decision support.
2023
Summer 2023
GPAS Ltd to launch the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis tool.
2022
January
GPAS toolset updated to enable sample upload from both Illumina and ONT sequencing machines.
February
GPAS toolset updated to enable upload of FASTQ and BAM files. Oxford University Hospitals and UKHSA’s New Variant Assessment Platform begin testing samples.
March
Labs in South Africa, Tanzania, the United States and Pakistan began using GPAS.
2021
8th January
WHO Guidance on implementing SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing published.
April
Oracle donated cloud services to support the University of Oxford R&D.
13th June
G7 leaders commit to ‘boost global surveillance and genomic sequencing’.
21st September
Institute of Public Health in Chile becomes the first international user of GPAS.
2020
11th January
Chinese scientists published the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus (later SARS-CoV-2).
2013 - 16
Ebola virus disease epidemic marked the first large-scale use of genomic epidemiology for an ongoing outbreak.
2012
Oracle launched the Oracle Cloud enabling sharing and storage of information on the internet.
2010
University of Oxford Modernising Medical Microbiology Team started using pathogen sequencing to predict TB drug resistance.
1986
First automated DNA sequencing machine became available.
1976
First DNA-base genome sequenced. It was PhiX174, a bacteriophage, containing a single circle of DNA.