GenomicsJournal of Bioinformatics and Systems BiologyPeer-reviewed
Discovery of a novel merbecovirus DNA clone contaminating agricultural rice sequencing datasets from Wuhan, China
Adrian Jones, Daoyu Zhang, Steven E. Massey…·Steven C. Quay
The paper identifies a novel HKU4-related merbecovirus contaminant in rice RNA-seq datasets from Wuhan, China, and finds it shares genetic similarity with MERS-CoV and binds to human DPP4.