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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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Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China
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Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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National Engineering Research Center for the Emergence Drugs, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing, 100850, China
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The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity: Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510623, China
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The Joint Program in Infection and Immunity: Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China
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Xu, X., Chen, P., Wang, J.et al. Evolution of the novel coronavirus from the ongoing Wuhan outbreak and modeling of its spike protein for risk of human transmission.Sci. China Life Sci.63, 457–460 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1637-5
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