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Isolation of Fidelity Variants of RNA Viruses and Characterization of Virus Mutation Frequency
Published on: June 16, 2011
Viral Instant Mutation Viewer: A Tool to Speed Up the Identification and Analysis of New SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants
Vincent Wilde1,2, Bruno Canard1,2,3, François Ferron1,2,3
1Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS-UMR 7257, Polytech Case 925, 13009 Marseille, France.
Abstract:
The appearance of genetic variants impacts vaccination efficiency and therapeutic options, generating a need to map and relate mutations observed in the proteome and the genome. We develop an user-friendly web service software (Viral Instant Mutation Viewer or VIMVer) which allows a direct identification of mutations in the genome and its counterpart in the viral proteome. Since its emergence in 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has generated an overwhelming amount of data while becoming one of the most studied viruses of the Nidovirales order. We originally developed this tool during the COVID pandemic; thus, for any SARS-CoV-2 nucleotide sequence, the web service gives a fast identification, mapping, and display of new mutations simultaneously at the nucleotide and amino acid level in comparison to a reference sequence (Wuhan-1). Furthermore, the lineage or the relative position to the known lineage of the variant of interest is available on the link to Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak LINeages (PANGOLIN COVID-19). The workflow presented here is available online. The source code is released under public license and can be easily adapted for further development to other viruses.
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