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Sci China Life Sci. 2020; 63(3): 457–460.
Published online 2020 Jan 21. doi: 10.1007/s11427-020-1637-5
PMCID: PMC7089049
PMID: 32009228

Evolution of the novel coronavirus from the ongoing Wuhan outbreak and modeling of its spike protein for risk of human transmission

Xintian Xu,#1 Ping Chen,#2,5 Jingfang Wang,#3 Jiannan Feng,4 Hui Zhou,2 Xuan Li,corresponding author2 Wu Zhong,corresponding author4 and Pei Haocorresponding author1,5,6
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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Science and Technology Major Projects for “Major New Drugs Innovation and Development” (directed by Dr. Song Li) (2018ZX09711003) of China, the National Key R&D Program (2018YFC0310600) of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31771412), and Special Fund for strategic bio-resources from Chinese Academy of Sciences (ZSYS-014). We also acknowledge the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC; Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College; and Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital for their efforts in research and collecting the data and genome sequencing sharing. In addition, we acknowledge GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org/) for facilitating open data sharing.

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Compliance and ethics The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Contributed equally to this work

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Xuan Li, nc.ca.eppis@nauxil.

Wu Zhong, nc.ca.imb@uwgnohz.

Pei Hao, nc.ca.spi@oahp.

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