What is genomic fingerprinting?

Rebecca Rockett, University of Sydney
If you had told me in January that “genomics” would become a buzzword in 2020, I’d have thought you were crazy.
But the COVID-19 pandemic has brought medical science to the top of our nightly news bulletins. And now, it seems, everyone is talking about genomics.
During Australia’s first wave of COVID-19, genomic sequencing of the earliest Sydney clusters was crucial to identifying the difference between imported cases and local community transmissions.
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