RT-PCR/MALDI-TOF Diagnostic Target Performance Reflects Circulating SARS-CoV-2 Variant Diversity in New York City

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.04.21267265: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: Ethics statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the ISMMS (HS#13-00981).
    Field Sample Permit: Details of processing and SARS-CoV-2 testing of upper respiratory and saliva specimens have been described previously 28,31.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Cell Line AuthenticationAuthentication: SARS-CoV-2 sequencing, assembly and phylogenetic analyses: SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA underwent reverse-transcription, PCR amplification and next-generation sequencing followed by genome assembly and lineage assignment using a phylogenetic-based nomenclature as described by Rambaut et al. 32 using the Pangolin v3.1.14 tool and PANGO-v1.2.81 nomenclature scheme 33 as previously described 29,30.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Alignment of specimen sequences with each primer/probe sequence was performed using the Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform (MAFFT) platform 35,36 as previously described 28.
    MAFFT
    suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)
    All distributions were non-parametric, and thus, a Mann-Whitney test (two-tailed) was performed (GraphPad).
    GraphPad
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)
    Display Items: All figures are original and were generated using the GraphPad Prism software 9.2.0, Microsoft Excel v16.54, and finished in Adobe Illustrator 2021 (v.25.4.1).
    GraphPad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)
    Microsoft Excel
    suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)
    Alignment plots were developed using the package ggmsa (v.1.1.0) on R 39 and finished in Adobe Illustrator.
    Adobe Illustrator
    suggested: (Adobe Illustrator, RRID:SCR_010279)

    Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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