Computational strategies to combat COVID-19: useful tools to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus research

F Hufsky, K Lamkiewicz, A Almeida… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is a novel virus of
the family Coronaviridae. The virus causes the infectious disease COVID-19. The biology of …

Genomic diversity, lifestyles and evolutionary origins of DPANN archaea

N Dombrowski, JH Lee, TA Williams… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Archaea—a primary domain of life besides Bacteria—have for a long time been regarded as
peculiar organisms that play marginal roles in biogeochemical cycles. However, this picture …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 B. 1.1. 7 to mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies

DA Collier, A De Marco, IATM Ferreira, B Meng… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is uncontrolled in many parts of the world; control is
compounded in some areas by the higher transmission potential of the B. 1.1. 7 variant …

SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection

SA Kemp, DA Collier, RP Datir, IATM Ferreira, S Gayed… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
critical for virus infection through the engagement of the human ACE2 protein and is a major …

[HTML][HTML] Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant (AY. 127) from pet hamsters to humans, leading to onward human-to-human transmission: a case study

HL Yen, THC Sit, CJ Brackman, SSY Chuk, H Gu… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to other mammals,
including pet animals, has been reported. However, with the exception of farmed mink, there …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 spike deletion H69/V70 and its role in the Alpha variant B. 1.1. 7

B Meng, SA Kemp, G Papa, R Datir, IATM Ferreira… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
We report severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike ΔH69/V70
in multiple independent lineages, often occurring after acquisition of receptor binding motif …

A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology

A Rambaut, EC Holmes, Á O'Toole, V Hill… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing pandemic spread of a new human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which is
associated with severe pneumonia/disease (COVID-19), has resulted in the generation of …

IQ-TREE 2: new models and efficient methods for phylogenetic inference in the genomic era

BQ Minh, HA Schmidt, O Chernomor… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract IQ-TREE (http://www. iqtree. org, last accessed February 6, 2020) is a user-friendly
and widely used software package for phylogenetic inference using maximum likelihood …

Ultrafast Sample placement on Existing tRees (UShER) enables real-time phylogenetics for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Y Turakhia, B Thornlow, AS Hinrichs, N De Maio… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads through human populations, the unprecedented
accumulation of viral genome sequences is ushering in a new era of 'genomic contact …