Marcus Ho-Hin Shum

TL;DR: The discovery of multiple lineages of pangolin coronavirus and their similarity to SARS-CoV-2 suggests that pangolins should be considered as possible hosts in the emergence of new coronaviruses and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission.

TL;DR: In this article, two new SARS-CoV-2 lineages with the N501Y mutation in the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein spread rapidly in the United Kingdom.

TL;DR: The discovery of multiple lineages of pangolin coronavirus and their similarity to 2019-nCoV suggests that pangolins should be considered as possible intermediate hosts for this novel human virus and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission.

TL;DR: The proposed algorithm ‘TIPars’ by integrating parsimony analysis with pre-computed ancestral sequences achieves the best performance in most tests and its efficient and accurate phylogenetic placements and incrementation for phylogenies with highly similar and divergent sequences suggest that it will be useful in a wide range of studies.

TL;DR: In this paper , a universal unit (ARG copy per cell) was proposed for reporting such biological measurements of samples and improving the comparability of different surveillance efforts, which can be used to compare and synthesize the results of multiple studies that employ different test methods and approaches in bioinformatic analysis.