Dhaka, May 22 -- While all the storm was going down, the week emerged as the one where Bangladeshi scientists really started getting on the ball, with several more SARS-CoV-2 genomes sequenced at various labs and submitted to the international database being maintained by the GIS Project. It was only a week ago of course that news had broken of the first such successful attempt, carried out by a team led by Dr Senjuti Saha over at the Child Health Research Foundation.

Some of the other organisations to have come through in the last 7 days and submitted their work to the international database, are now viewable through the website nextstrain.org - which started out as a pet project of Dr Trevor Bedford, the earliest American virologist to...