What is INSACOG?

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 Full form of INSACOG - 

Indian SARS-COV2 Consortium on Genomics

What is it? 

A consortium of 28 national laboratories.

 INSACOG is a multi-laboratory, multi-agency, Pan-India network to monitor genomic variations in the SARS-CoV-2 by a sentinel sequencing effort. 

The network carries out whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 virus across the nation, aiding the understanding of how the virus spreads and evolves, and provide information to aid public health response.

Who is incharge? 

  • Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology 
  • Jointly Established by - MoH&FW, DBT, CSIR, ICMR

Aim/Purpose of INSACOG - 

  • To assess SARS-COV2 
  • To do Genomic surveillance, epidemiological surveillance and clinical correlation 
  • Understand how the virus spreads and evolves, and provide information to aid public health response/preparedness
  • To understand the disease dynamics and severity
  • Understand if local outbreaks are caused by transmission of single or multiple viral lineages
  • To strengthen public health interventions
  • Understanding of unusual events like Vaccine breakthrough, suspected reinfections, super spreader events, outbreaks etc
  • Understand viral infection dynamics, morbidity and mortality trends 
  • Early detection of genomic variants of public health implication through sentinel surveillance


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