Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding …

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been
reported worldwide. The advent of variants of concern (VOCs) raises severe concerns amid …

Genomic surveillance has shaped our understanding of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants. We performed a global landscape analysis on SARS …

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 …

Accurate and timely detection of recombinant lineages is crucial for interpreting genetic
variation, reconstructing epidemic spread, identifying selection and variants of interest, and …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, genomics and bioinformatics have emerged as essential
public health tools. The genomic data acquired using these methods have supported the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented response from the sequencing
community. Leveraging the sequence data from more than 140,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes …

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 …

Current methods for inference of phylogenetic trees require running complex pipelines at
substantial computational and labor costs, with additional constraints in sequencing …

The vast scale of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data has made it increasingly challenging to
comprehensively analyze all available data using existing tools and file formats. To address …