CovDif, a Tool to Visualize the Conservation between SARS-CoV-2 Genomes and Variants.

ABSTRACT: The spread of the newly emerged severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) virus has led to more than 430 million confirmed cases, including more than 5.9 million deaths, reported worldwide as of 24 February 2022. Conservation of viral genomes is important for pathogen identification and diagnosis, therapeutics development and epidemiological surveillance to detect the emergence of new viral variants. An intense surveillance of virus variants has led to the identification of Variants of Interest and Variants of Concern. Although these classifications dynamically change as the pandemic evolves, they have been useful to guide public health efforts on containment and mitigation. In this work, we present CovDif, a tool to detect conserved regions between groups of viral genomes. CovDif cre

SUBMITTER: Cedeno-Perez LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8955889 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature