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Coronapp : A web application to annotate and monitor SARS‐CoV‐2 mutations
Author(s) -
Mercatelli Daniele,
Triboli Luca,
Fornasari Eleonora,
Ray Forest,
Giorgi Federico M.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.26678
Subject(s) - annotation , covid-19 , computational biology , mutation , population , biology , genetics , genome , computer science , virology , gene , medicine , disease , environmental health , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The avalanche of genomic data generated from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus requires the development of tools to detect and monitor its mutations across the world. Here, we present a webtool, coronapp, dedicated to easily processing user-provided SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and visualizing the current worldwide status of SARS-CoV-2 mutations. The webtool allows users to highlight mutations and categorize them by frequency, country, genomic location and effect on protein sequences, and to monitor their presence in the population over time. The tool is available at http://giorgilab.unibo.it/coronannotator/ for the annotation of user-provided sequences. The full code is freely shared at https://github.com/federicogiorgi/giorgilab/tree/master/coronannotator.