sars_cov_2 {BCT}

SARS-CoV-2 genome

Description

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is the novel coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 global pandemic in 2019-20. This dataset contains the SARS-CoV-2 genome, available in the GenBank database as the sequence MN908947.3. It consists of n = 29903 base pairs. The gene sequence is mapped to the alphabet 0,1,2,3 via the obvious map A->0, C->1, G->2, T->3.

Usage

sars_cov_2

Format

An object of class "character".

References

K. Clark, I. Karsch-Mizrachi, D.J. Lipman, J. Ostell, and E.W. Sayers. GenBank. Nucleic Acids Research, 44(D1): D67–D72, January 2016. (ncbi)

F. Wu, S. Zhao, B. Yu, et al. A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China. Nature, 579(7798):265–269, Februrary 2020. (PubMed)

Examples

BCT(sars_cov_2, 5)