So Nakagawa, Toshiaki Katayama, Lihua Jin, Jiaqi Wu, Kirill Kryukov, Rise Oyachi, Junko S Takeuchi, Takatomo Fujisawa, Satomi Asano, Momoka Komatsu, Jun-Ichi Onami, Takashi Abe, Masanori Arita
Since the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a number of research institutes have been sequencing and sharing high-quality severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genomes to trace the route of infection in Japan. To provide insight into the spread of COVID-19, we developed a web platform named SARS-CoV-2 HaploGraph to visualize the emergence timing and geographical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 haplotypes. Using data from the GISAID EpiCoV database as of June 4, 2022, we created a haplotype naming system by determining the ancestral haplotype for each epidemic wave and showed prefecture- or region-specific haplotypes in each of four waves in Japan...
October 14, 2023: Genes & Genetic Systems