Genomic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 delta variants pre- and post-omicron emergence using alignment-free machine learning models

• Sathish Sankar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Center for Infectious Diseases, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Kaushika Anandharaman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kaushika Anandharaman, Pradeesh Selvam

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Saveetha Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University), Chennai, India

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• Pradeesh Selvam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kaushika Anandharaman, Pradeesh Selvam

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Saveetha Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University), Chennai, India

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• Aswini Jayaraman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Saveetha Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University), Chennai, India

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• Deepak Jayakumar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation State Public Health Laboratory, Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, DMS Campus, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Pachamuthu Balakrishnan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research (MAHER), Chennai, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1710-9155

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• Marie Larsson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marie.larsson@liu.se (ML); shankarem@cutn.ac.in (EMS)

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine and Virology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Vijayakumar Velu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory National Primate Research Center, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America,

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• Sivadoss Raju,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research (MAHER), Chennai, India

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• Esaki M. Shankar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marie.larsson@liu.se (ML); shankarem@cutn.ac.in (EMS)

  Affiliation Infection and Inflammation, Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7866-9818

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