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A schematic diagram of SARS-CoV-2 genome structure. SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped RNA virus with an approximately 30 kilo base pair (kbp) genome size. The primary structural proteins of SARS-CoV-2 are membrane (M), spike (S) and nucleocapsid (N) proteins. The genome of SARS-CoV-2 consists of 14 open reading frames (ORFs) which encode for 27 structural and non-structural proteins. This image was created with Biorender.com.
