As scientists seek to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the study of the human host response to SARS-CoV-2 plays a critical role. Illumina released a new collaborative environment for studying COVID-19 host response, leveraging BaseSpace Correlation Engine (BSCE)<\/strong><\/a>. The resource provides an environment for COVID-19 researchers to put their\u00a0results into context, accelerating discoveries and enabling hypothesis validation around important pathways, biomarkers and potential drug candidate leads, to help address the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n Illumina is making this resource available at no cost <\/strong>to provide the COVID-19 global research community the opportunity to evaluate BSCE in support of efforts to combat the pandemic.<\/p>\n The resource will be made available free-of-charge for six months to SARS-CoV-2 researchers, here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n To see examples of how BSCE may be leveraged to better understand SARS-CoV-2 host response, interested researchers can review a series of videos<\/a> created by BSCE users Mike Edwards, Ph.D., Enrique Torchia, Ph.D., and collaborators. Data developed in these videos has been made available in the resource.<\/p>\n (Content from Illumina blog post<\/a> 9 July 2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Collaborative Environment Released for COVID-19 Host Response Research<\/p>\n As scientists seek to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the study of the human host response to SARS-CoV-2 plays a critical role. Illumina released a new collaborative environment for studying COVID-19 host response, leveraging BaseSpace Correlation Engine (BSCE)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n