Genome Composition and Divergence of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Originating in China

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Systems Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China; Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
• ² College of Biology, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Virology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
• ³ Key Laboratory of Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China.
• ⁴ School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
• ⁵ Department of Cell Biology, School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha 410013, China; Hunan Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases, Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics & Center for Medical Genetics, School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha 410013, China.
• ⁶ Key Laboratory of Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing 102206, China. Electronic address: tanwj@ivdc.chinacdc.cn.
• ⁷ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA. Electronic address: gcheng@mednet.ucla.edu.
• ⁸ Center for Systems Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China; Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China. Electronic address: taijiao@ibms.pumc.edu.cn.