Questions tagged [coronavirus]
Large family of single stranded, positive sense RNA viruses comprising SARS and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
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relation between Illumina sequencing primer and viral sequences
Dealing whith a problematic sequencing run I found this over-represented sequence:
GGAAGAGCACACGTCTGAACTCCAGTCACTAGCTTATCTCGTATGGCGTCTTCTGCTTG
It is clearly relate to the Illumina sequencing primer ...
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Why ORF13 and ORF14 of Bat Sars coronavirus Rp3 have no corrispondence in Sars2?
I'am comparing bats coronavirus with Sars2, i.e. COVID-19. I have one question...
one Bat Sars coronaviurs identify in GenBank as DQ071615.1 has the ORF13(28122..28415) and ORF14(28572..28784) ...
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Why does Coronavirus genome contain poly A region at the 3' end in GenBank? [duplicate]
If you look at the Coronavirus genome below, it contains poly-A region at the end. I know that the viral RNA contains a poly-A tail. But, the genome in GenBank is stored in cDNA format. That means the ...
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Virus genome: protein inside another protein
The genome sequence for the GenBank virus JX869059.2 (a human betacoronavirus) contains, among others, two proteins:
N protein (range 28566..29807) and
Orf8b (range 28762..29100).
The interval for ...
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COVID-19 GWAS: what is a cross-replicating association?
In a genomic study of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the authors detected cross-replicating associations with rs11385942 at locus 3p21.31 , the association signal spanned the genes SLC6A20, ...
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Human Herpes Virus, fusion motif in protein vs. SARS-CoV-2?
Is it possible that the fusion with cell propriety of Human Herpes virus, I see X14112.1 in GenBank is due to protein UL36 (tegument of virus) starting in linear position 2685 ???
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Prediction model for spread of coronavirus
A previous thread on Bioinformatics StackExchange citing an article by the Economist which references a cartoon of predictive outcomes by the CDC (Economist article on coronavirus) suggests a model in ...
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