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An evolutionary theory on virus mutation in COVID-19.
Virus research - 1 Jun 2024
Luo Liaofu, Lv Jun
Abstract excerpt
With the rapid evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the emergence of new strains is an intriguing question. This paper presents an evolutionary theory to analyze the mutations of the virus and identify the conditions that lead to the generation of new strains. We represent the virus variants using a 4-letter sequence based on amino acid mutations on the spike protein and employ an n-distance algorithm to derive a variant...
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