Graphen COVID-19 Genomic Evolution
2) from worldwide labs, the Graphen team, in conjunction with Columbia University, is able to align the genome of viruses, look for the canonical form of each gene location, and identify the exact variant(s) of a virus. Each virus has nearly 30k bases with each position represented by one of ATCG, the cDNA of virus. A virtual Canonical form sequence was determined independently in each position, not based on a single virus. In the Canonical form, the genomic length of a virus is 29,816. The letter of each position of the Canonical form was independently determined by the consensus of all sequenced viruses. Genome sequences need to be first aligned. The max position number after alignment is 30,532 which includes some head/tail/empty holes. After the canonical form is available, for each virus, we can then identify its exact variation in each position by comparing to the Canonical f