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SUMMARY:Tapestry: A Single-Round Smart Pooling Technique for COVID-19 Testi
 ng
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Department of Electrical Engineer
 ing\nIndian Institute of Technology Bombay\nMumbai)\n\nAbstract: \nAbstrac
 t: The COVID-19 pandemic has strained testing capabilities worldwide. Ther
 e is an urgent need to find economical and scalable ways to test more peop
 le. We present Tapestry\, a novel quantitative nonadaptive pooling scheme 
 to test many samples using only a few tests. The underlying molecular diag
 nostic test is any real-time RT-PCR diagnostic panel approved for the dete
 ction of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In cases where most samples are negative fo
 r the virus\, Tapestry accurately identifies the status of each individual
  sample with a single round of testing in fewer tests than simple two-roun
 d pooling. We also present a companion Android application BYOM Smart Test
 ing which guides users through the pipetting steps required to perform the
  combinatorial pooling. The results of the pooled tests can be fed into th
 e application to recover the status and estimated viral load for each indi
 vidual sample.\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/1061
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LOCATION:A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
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