A reference-based computational pipeline is used to identify mutation patterns and genome similarity among 1,001 complete SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Africa.
# SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variation and MST Analysis
This project analyzes SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences using bioinformatics and data science techniques to identify SNPs, indels, mutation frequencies, and genomic relationships through Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) analysis.
## Methods
- Multiple sequence alignment
- SNP and indel detection
- Mutation frequency analysis
- Distance matrix computation
- Minimum Spanning Tree construction
- Statistical analysis
- Network visualization using Cytoscape
## Tools and Libraries
- Python
- pandas
- NumPy
- Biopython
- scikit-learn
- matplotlib
- seaborn
- NetworkX
- Cytoscape
## Project structure
- plots/ contain visualization outputs
- stats/ contain statistical output files
- final_project.ipynb is the complete analysis notebook
- hoq_final_project_report.pdf is the final project report
- others are other output files
## Example Outputs
### MST Network
### Manhattan Plot