id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-331155-jkm4fuw4 Nakashima, Akiko Virus database annotations assist in tracing information on patients infected with emerging pathogens 2020-10-08 .txt text/plain 3868 238 48 Here, we evaluated the applicability of public database annotations to estimate the virulence, transmission trends and origins of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. COVID-19 presents varied symptomatic features [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] with a wide range of incubation periods and epidemic curves J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 4 are occurring [21] , [22] , the pathogenicity and origins of the mutated substrains of SARS-CoV-2 should be available in real time to adopt early measures by authorities at the onset of emergence. We examined the nucleotide mutations and visualized the transmission trajectories of SARS-CoV-2 by consulting the world specimens registered in the virus data bank of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) [32] . Collectively, the annotations in the virus genome database are of fundamental use to hypothesize the pathogenicity and to trace the transmission route at the early phase of emergence of the new substrains. ./cache/cord-331155-jkm4fuw4.txt ./txt/cord-331155-jkm4fuw4.txt