similar notifications appeared on the devices of scientists

[GoodTaste]

What does "devices" mean here? Tools that scientists use? What tool? Genome sequencing here, for example?


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Lying in bed on the night of 10 January, scrolling through news on his smartphone, Andrew Mesecar got an alert. He sat up. It was here. The complete genome of a coronavirus causing a cluster of pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, China, had just been posted online.


Around the world, similar notifications appeared on the devices of scientists who first crossed swords with coronaviruses in the 2003 outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and then again with MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) in 2012. Instantly, the researchers mobilized against a new adversary.

Source: Nature 15 MAY 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01444-z

 

[GoodTaste]

Whose notifications?

 

[tedmc]

The genome sequencing which contain information on the identification of the coronavirus was shared by China with the rest of the word via WHO.