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AI-Assisted Genomic Alignment for Wastewater COVID-19 Surveillance

Accountable
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)
Functional Modes
Sensing (Perceptive AI)
Human decides
Purpose
Environmental Health
Input Dataset
About a measurement Anonymized data
Algorithm or Model
Classification & Prediction
Output Dataset
About a measurement Anonymized data
Details

Bowtie2 is a bioinformatics tool used by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to align genetic sequencing data from wastewater samples against a reference genome. It is an intermediate computational step in a workflow that identifies COVID-19 variants circulating in the community. No personal or identifying information about individuals is collected or processed — the input is environmental biological material, not data about named people.

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This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

Schema: ai@2026-05-06-beta

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