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Serratus

Serratus is an ongoing Open-Science project. We welcome all scientists to contribute. See CONTRIBUTING.md

Background

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic will infect millions and has already crippled the global economy.

While there is an intense research effort to sequence SARS-CoV-2 isolates to understand the evolution of the virus in real-time, our understanding of coronavirus evolution is limited by the poor characterization of other members of the Coronaviridae family (only 53/436 CoV sp. Genomes are available).

We are re-analyzing all RNA-sequencing data in the NCBI Short Read Archive to discover new members of Coronaviridae and assemble their genomes. That is >1.12 million biological samples or 5.72 petabytes of sequencing data.