Spike protein D614G variant paper published in Cell today

SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus nCoV-2019 Genomic Epidemiology
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Our paper was published in Cell today:
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.043

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30820-5

A paper using different methods just went up on the bioRxiv which concludes that there is no evidence that D614G has any selective advantage in the population.


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I think it is good to read about both methods to understand why they come to different conclusions. Both our web site and the web site for the other method are online now:

https://cov.lanl.gov/content/index

https://macman123.shinyapps.io/ugi-scov2-alignment-screen/

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The Datamonkey and Nextstrain sites allow interactive exploration of the same data:

http://covid19.datamonkey.org/2020/04/01/covid19-analysis/

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global?c=gt-nuc_23403&l=radial

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We also published this perspective today

Making sense of mutation: what D614G means for the COVID-19 pandemic remains unclear
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30817-5

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