Open AccessUnderstanding SARS with Wolfram Approach
Author(s) -
Dawei Li,
Y. X. Pan,
Yun Duan,
Zhen-De Hung,
Mingqing Xu,
Lin He
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
acta biochimica et biophysica sinica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1745-7270
pISSN - 1672-9145
DOI - 10.1093/abbs/36.1.1
Subject(s) - virology , disease , covid-19 , middle east respiratory syndrome , genome , coronavirus , etiology , biology , sars virus , virus , severe acute respiratory syndrome , betacoronavirus , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , genetics , outbreak , gene , pathology
Stepping acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as another type of disease has been threatening mankind since late last year. Many scientists worldwide are making great efforts to study the etiology of this disease with different approaches. 13 species of SARS virus have been sequenced. However, most people still largely rely on the traditional methods with some disadvantages. In this work, we used Wolfram approach to study the relationship among SARS viruses and between SARS viruses and other types of viruses, the effect of variations on the whole genome and the advantages in the analysis of SARS based on this novel approach. As a result, the similarities between SARS viruses and other coronaviruses are not really higher than those between SARS viruses and non-coronaviruses.