Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome (Published 2020)

A virus is “simply a piece of bad news wrapped up in protein,” the biologists Jean and Peter Medawar wrote in 1977. In January, scientists deciphered a piece of very bad news: the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The sample came from a 41-year-old man who worked at the seafood market in Wuhan where the first cluster of cases appeared. Researchers are now racing to make sense o

[fujikumo]

COVID-19という感染症を引き起こすウイルスをSARS-CoV-2と呼ぶ｡ウイルスは適した生体の細胞をみつけ､そこに一連の配列をもったRNAを注入する｡ゲノムはおよそ30000個の塩基配列で､29個のタンパク質の遺伝子が特定されて

[keloinwell]

SARS-CoV-2のゲノム配列とアノテーション。すごくわかりやすい。