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We have been working on productizing this for the past couple of weeks.

A bottle neck seems to be that it's not really possible to pool more than at most 32 patients at a time.

It's an early work in progress but have a look: https://www.pcr-pooling.com

This is exciting. I've been following the idea for a month or so. Did you know that a group in Israel has tested the idea and found that it worked with the swab tests?

I have a link on my notes below. I'll add your site to the reference list at the top tonight.

https://github.com/EFavDB/pooling

Hi, Yes we are aware and have reached out to them. There are a few more studies out there. One from Stanford and one from Germany too. We're currently working to refine the software and also improve the presentation (there are some mistakes) and write a paper.

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