Fitness, growth and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants

E Volz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The massive scale of the global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort created new opportunities
and challenges for understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Rapid detection and assessment …

Comprehensive annotations of the mutational spectra of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein: a fast and accurate pipeline

MS Rahman, MR Islam, MN Hoque… - Transboundary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infecting millions of people, the SARS‐CoV‐2 is evolving at an unprecedented rate,
demanding advanced and specified analytic pipeline to capture the mutational spectra. In …

[HTML][HTML] First Nations Health: The need for linked genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

C Colijn, DJD Earn, J Dushoff, NH Ogden… - Canada …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic surveillance during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been
key to the timely identification of virus variants with important public health consequences …

[HTML][HTML] Profiling SARS-CoV-2 mutation fingerprints that range from the viral pangenome to individual infection quasispecies

BT Lau, D Pavlichin, AC Hooker, A Almeda, G Shin… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background The genome of SARS-CoV-2 is susceptible to mutations during viral replication
due to the errors generated by RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. These mutations enable …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogeography of 27,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes: Europe as the major source of the COVID-19 pandemic

T Rito, MB Richards, M Pala, M Correia-Neves… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a zoonotic transmission in China
towards the end of 2019, rapidly leading to a global pandemic on a scale not seen for a …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing using tiled amplicon enrichment and bait hybridization

A Koskela von Sydow, CM Lindqvist, N Asghar… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) pandemic has led to
extensive virological monitoring by whole genome sequencing (WGS). Investigating the …

CoV-Spectrum: analysis of globally shared SARS-CoV-2 data to identify and characterize new variants

C Chen, S Nadeau, M Yared, P Voinov, N Xie… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Summary The CoV-Spectrum website supports the identification of new SARS-CoV-
2 variants of concern and the tracking of known variants. Its flexible amino acid and …

[PDF][PDF] Design of specific primer sets for the detection of B. 1.1. 7, B. 1.351 and P. 1 SARS-CoV-2 variants using deep learning

A Lopez-Rincon, CA Perez-Romero, A Tonda… - BioRxiv, 2021 - scholar.archive.org
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, new SARS-CoV-2 variants with potentially dangerous
features have been identified by the scientific community. Variant B. 1.1. 7 lineage clade GR …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 variant lineages using the S1-encoding region sequence obtained by PacBio single-molecule real-time sequencing

S Lhomme, J Latour, N Jeanne, P Trémeaux, N Ranger… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is the causal agent of
the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in late 2019. The outbreak of variants with mutations …

Rapid spread of mutant alleles in worldwide SARS-CoV-2 strains revealed by genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism and variation analysis

Z Zhu, G Liu, K Meng, L Yang, D Liu… - Genome biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has become a pandemic and is threatening human
health globally. Here, we report nine newly evolved SARS-CoV-2 single nucleotide …