SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Part 2
All countries need to review their strategies now. ~ Dr. Michael J. Ryan, WHO It's literally a new world now, so either we adapt to it collectively as one species or only the privileged healthy will be left to live. And the only way to adapt to a new world is to keep working through mistakes, failures and changes, driven by a sense of community. ~ Abhijit Naskar The NY Times published a great article by Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer describing the SARS-CoV-2 proteins. It's some of the best popular science writing we have seen. SARS-CoV-2 genome data keeps arriving at NCBI. This data is extremely important for tracking the mutational history of the virus. On April 4, we downloaded 417 full SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences from NCBI Virus in FASTA format along with the corresponding full GenBank files. We analyzed it right away, but because life under social distancing sometimes requires some tricky management, we haven't...