Since the first case of COVID-19 in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, SARS-CoV-2 has
spread worldwide and within a year and a half has caused 3.56 million deaths globally. With …

Genomic virus surveillance can lead to early identification of new variants and inform proper
response during a pandemic. Using this approach, we have identified a new variant of the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the globe at an alarming rate. However, unlike
any of the previous global outbreaks the availability of a large number of SARS-CoV-2 …

Abstract Wide-scale SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing is critical to monitoring and
understanding viral evolution during the ongoing pandemic. Variants first detected in the …

Abstract Wide-scale SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing is critical to tracking viral evolution
during the ongoing pandemic. We develop the software tool, Variant Database (VDB), for …

Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there has been international concern
about the emergence of virus variants with mutations that increase transmissibility, enhance …

SARS-CoV-2 is a SARS-like coronavirus of likely zoonotic origin first identified in December
2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province. The virus has since spread globally …

The efforts of the scientific community to tame the recent pandemic caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seem to have been diluted by the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been ongoing since its onset in late November 2019 in
Wuhan, China. Understanding and monitoring the genetic evolution of the virus, its …

Background At the end of December 2019, a novel strain of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) has been identified in Wuhan …