Open COVID-19 Testing

Promoting the expansion of COVID-19 testing to save lives

Latest news:

• Coronavirus Test Tracker: Commercially Available COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests, with regulatory status for US, EU, Asia (Link - constantly updated)

• Design Flaws in COVID-19 Primers from Multiple International Labs (Link, April 5th, 2020)

• THREE NEW ADDITIONS ON OPEN PROJECTS (March 27, 2020) - See Other Open Initiatives for futher details.

  • COVID-19 Resources Canada Resources for researchers and clinicians fighting COVID-19 in Canada.

  • Pipette Jockey who have an open-source reverse transcriptase and DNA polymerase.

  • Ottawa Bio science who have a low-cost bio-reactor system.

• NEW SECTION: Project Requests (March 23, 2020). We have identified certain blockers to furthering COVID-19 testing, and are posting these here. If you have identified a block, or can help unblock one of these parts, please contact us.

• COVID19 primer on SARS-CoV-2, Updated: 2020-03-21 23h30m, by Annick Gauthier, MD, PhD, CCFP (March 21, 2020)

• Open Letter To The Ontario Minister of Health, for the expansion of COVID-19 testing, by Chris Griffiths, BHSc, MD (March 20, 2020 )

We will describe how to set up COVID-19 testing, providing information on alternative kits and reagents that could be used to substitute recommended testing kits. This may be necessary to increase testing volume.

We encourage the submission of custom testing protocols for dissemination on this site, especially if they have been validated for use. Please email us at opencovid19test@gmail.com

We need contributors for this site! Please get in contact opencovid19test@gmail.com - looking for researchers, medical writers, or any other way you think you can help.

We provide crowd-sourced information on:

• Basic Principles of COVID-19 testing

• Testing protocols, reagents, instrumentation for RT-PCR, Nucleic Acid Extraction, including a database of alternative kits.

• Information on Jurisdictional Guidelines

• Resources of other open initiatives for COVID19 testing

Disclaimer

• Informational only, and not intended to replace mandated/officially recommended testing (WHO, CDC, or your country's guidelines etc)

Reagent Database

Please use the tabs below to navigate the reagents or open the database itself