They find errors in coronavirus genetic sequences included in the world's largest database

A multidisciplinary team led by the Institute of Integrative System Biology (I2SysBio), a joint center of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the University of Valencia (UV), has published a study that discovers a new perspective on the ability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to mutate and infect humans. Through a review of the genetic database of the virus most used during the pandemic, the research team found ‘false positives’ in its…