Adrian A Pater, Michael S Bosmeny, Adam A White, Rourke J Sylvain, Seth B Eddington, Mansi Parasrampuria, Katy N Ovington, Paige E Metz, Abadat O Yinusa, Christopher L Barkau, Ramadevi Chilamkurthy, Scott W Benzinger, Madison M Hebert, Keith T Gagnon
In late 2019, a novel coronavirus began spreading in Wuhan, China, causing a potentially lethal respiratory viral infection. By early 2020, the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, had spread globally, causing the COVID-19 pandemic. The infection and mutation rates of SARS-CoV-2 make it amenable to tracking introduction, spread and evolution by viral genome sequencing. Efforts to develop effective public health policies, therapeutics, or vaccines to treat or prevent COVID-19 are also expected to benefit from tracking mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus...
2021: Journal of Biological Methods