World events have taken many people’s minds off COVID, but the virus is completely undeterred by any human preoccupation, and continues to follow evolution’s bidding one mutation at a time.
Hi Paul. Growth advantage is determined by observing how the percentage of sequences of the variant you’re looking at changes over time in relation to the other variant sequences. Larger growth advantage means that variant’s percent of sequenced genomes will rapidly increase.
Thanks Jeff, excellent issue as usual. Can you tell us how viral groth advantage is determined for a particular variant?
Hi Paul. Growth advantage is determined by observing how the percentage of sequences of the variant you’re looking at changes over time in relation to the other variant sequences. Larger growth advantage means that variant’s percent of sequenced genomes will rapidly increase.