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KAUST Rapid Research Response Team COVID-19 Genomics Program
Built a Saudi SARS-CoV-2 genome tracker, sequenced clinical isolates and developed wastewater monitoring and bioinformatic resources during the pandemic.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Saudi clinical sites and national/global SARS-CoV-2 reference data
- Project type
- Pandemic pathogen-genomics research program
- Research domain
- SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology and wastewater surveillance
- Years
- 2020–2022
- Lifecycle status
- completed
- Status basis
- R3T was formed in 2020; its principal Saudi genomic-epidemiology paper appeared in 2022 and the linked wastewater monitoring series ran through 2022.
- Status evidence date
- 2022-12-31
- Scale
- Peer-reviewed study sequenced 892 Saudi genomes from March-August 2020; the tracker held about 90,000 global genomes including more than 500 Saudi genomes by August 2020; an announced plan targeted more than 2,000 Saudi isolates.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
- Partner organizations
- Saudi Public Health Authority / former Saudi CDC · Saudi Ministry of Health · University of Oxford · Saudi hospitals · King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- Organism / population
- Saudi SARS-CoV-2 clinical isolates and municipal wastewater
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequencing
- phylogenetics
- genomic dashboard
- wastewater surveillance
Data access
Publication-linked sequence data and aggregate tracker outputs; accessions are study-specific
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named, multi-institution pandemic research program with hundreds of sequenced Saudi isolates and continuing wastewater subwork.
Editorial note
Likely contributor/parallel program to national COVID genomic surveillance. Do not sum its sequence counts with national totals. The more-than-2,000 figure was a plan, not confirmed completion.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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