Similarity between mutation spectra in hypermutated genomes of rubella virus and in SARS-CoV-2 genomes accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic

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    Functional annotation of the mutations was performed using the standard protocol of ANNOVAR ([25] and https://doc-openbio.readthedocs.io/projects/annovar/en/latest/) based on the genome annotations in GenBank entry NC_045512.2 Out of 251,481 mutations initially called in 32,115 isolates, 251,273 were retained after removing redundant DNA symbols (anything but A,C,G,T) as well as mutation calls separated by less than 20 nt from either end of the reference, of which 243,454 were SNVs in 32070 isolates.
    ANNOVAR
    suggested: (ANNOVAR, RRID:SCR_012821)
    The *RNAfold.txt files were used to add a stem-loop annotation column “RNAfold” to all MAF files using the vlookup function in Excel and saved as a tab delimited text file.
    Excel
    suggested: None

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    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


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