The current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak demonstrates the potential of coronaviruses, especially bat-derived beta coronaviruses to rapidly escalate to a global pandemic that has caused deaths in the order of several millions already. The huge efforts put in place by the scientific community to address this emergency have disclosed how the implementation of new technologies is crucial in the prepandemic period to timely face future ecological crises. In this context, we argue that metagenomics and new approaches to understanding ecosystems and biodiversity offer veritable prospects to innovate therapeutics and diagnostics against novel and existing infectious agents. We discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with the science of metagenomics, specifically with an eye to inform and prevent future ecological crises and pandemics that are looming on the horizon in the 21st century.

COVID-19 and preparing for future ecological crises: hopes from metagenomics in facing current and future viral pandemic challenges / Fulci, V; Carissimi, C; Laudadio, I. - In: OMICS. - ISSN 1536-2310. - 25:6(2021), pp. 336-341. [10.1089/omi.2021.0058]

COVID-19 and preparing for future ecological crises: hopes from metagenomics in facing current and future viral pandemic challenges

Fulci, V;Carissimi, C
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Laudadio, I
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2021

Abstract

The current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak demonstrates the potential of coronaviruses, especially bat-derived beta coronaviruses to rapidly escalate to a global pandemic that has caused deaths in the order of several millions already. The huge efforts put in place by the scientific community to address this emergency have disclosed how the implementation of new technologies is crucial in the prepandemic period to timely face future ecological crises. In this context, we argue that metagenomics and new approaches to understanding ecosystems and biodiversity offer veritable prospects to innovate therapeutics and diagnostics against novel and existing infectious agents. We discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with the science of metagenomics, specifically with an eye to inform and prevent future ecological crises and pandemics that are looming on the horizon in the 21st century.
2021
COVID-19; metagenomics; pandemics; ecology; infectious diseases; planetary health; innovation systems
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COVID-19 and preparing for future ecological crises: hopes from metagenomics in facing current and future viral pandemic challenges / Fulci, V; Carissimi, C; Laudadio, I. - In: OMICS. - ISSN 1536-2310. - 25:6(2021), pp. 336-341. [10.1089/omi.2021.0058]
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