Context

The 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak is an ongoing epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Source: Wikipedia.

Content

This dataset contains a repository of genomes that are similar to 2019-nCoV / SARS-CoV-2. GenBank MN908947, MN988668 and MN988669 should all be variants of SARS-CoV-2. The rest of the sequences are sequences that are similar to SARS-CoV-2.

Acknowledgements

Data sources were either: (A) sequences from NCBI that were referenced within Wu 2020, Chen 2020, or Zhou 2020 as being similar to SARS-CoV-2; (B) sequences from the NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Resource; or (C) sequences from the NCBI Coronavirus Resource.

Wu, F., Zhao, S., Yu, B. et al. A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2008-3 

Zhou, P., Yang, X., Wang, X. et al. A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2012-7 

Chen L, Liu W, et al.  RNA based mNGS approach identifies a novel human coronavirus from two individual pneumonia cases in 2019 Wuhan outbreak. Emerging Microbes & Infections. (2020) 10.1080/22221751.2020.172539 

The papers and datasets in this repository were all released under permissive data licenses. See the source_of_data folders for more detail about each specific license (most are either Creative Commons or Open Database Licenses).

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