[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness

AM Carabelli, TP Peacock, LG Thorne… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2020, after circulating for almost a year in the human population, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibited a major step change in its …

Outbreak. info genomic reports: scalable and dynamic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants and mutations

K Gangavarapu, AA Latif, JL Mullen, M Alkuzweny… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, the global scientific
community, through unprecedented effort, has sequenced and shared over 11 million …

Biology of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus

RN Mingaleeva, NA Nigmatulina… - Biochemistry …, 2022 - Springer
New coronavirus infection causing COVID-19, which was first reported in late 2019 in China,
initiated severe social and economic crisis that affected the whole world. High frequency of …

CoVEffect: interactive system for mining the effects of SARS-CoV-2 mutations and variants based on deep learning

G Serna García, R Al Khalaf, F Invernici, S Ceri… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Literature about SARS-CoV-2 widely discusses the effects of variations
that have spread in the past 3 years. Such information is dispersed in the texts of several …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a post-pandemic future for global pathogen genome sequencing

JT Ladner, JW Sahl - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Pathogen genome sequencing has become a routine part of our response to active
outbreaks of infectious disease and should be an important part of our preparations for …

SARS-CoV-2 Africa dashboard for real-time COVID-19 information

JS Xavier, M Moir, H Tegally, N Sitharam… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The SARS-CoV-2 Africa dashboard is an interactive tool that enables visualization of SARS-
CoV-2 genomic information in African countries. The customizable app allows users to …

[HTML][HTML] The spread of the omicron variant: Identification of knowledge gaps, virus diffusion modelling, and future research needs

U Anand, T Pal, A Zanoletti, S Sundaramurthy… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) recognised variant B. 1.1. 529 of the Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as a variant of concern, termed …

High-throughput screening of genetic and cellular drivers of syncytium formation induced by the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2

CWF Chan, B Wang, L Nan, X Huang, T Mao… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Mapping mutations and discovering cellular determinants that cause the spike protein of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to induce infected cells to …

[HTML][HTML] Real-time genomic surveillance for enhanced control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance

MJ Struelens, C Ludden, G Werner, V Sintchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This article advocates for mobilizing pathogen genomic surveillance to contain and mitigate
health threats from infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), building upon …

Relative vaccine effectiveness (rVE) of mRNA COVID-19 boosters in the UK vaccination programme, during the Spring-Summer (monovalent vaccine) and Autumn …

A Chatzilena, C Hyams, R Challen, R Marlow, J King… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Background Understanding the relative vaccine effectiveness (rVE) of new COVID-19
vaccine formulations against SARS-CoV-2 infection is an urgent public health priority. A …