Table 5.
Count of potential internal pairing in SARS-CoV-2 RNA. The table shows the distribution of the number of potential internal pairing in SARS-CoV-2 by length. The calculation was performed considering an exact matching and one or two mismatches for lengths of 5 bases or more.
| length of potential internal pairing | number of potential internal pairing |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| No mismatch | One mismatch | Two mismatches | |
| 28 | 1 | ||
| 23 | 1 | ||
| 21 | 1 | ||
| 20 | 1 | 7 | |
| 19 | 1 | 7 | |
| 18 | 24 | ||
| 17 | 8 | 41 | |
| 16 | 2 | 6 | 183 |
| 15 | 1 | 34 | 478 |
| 14 | 3 | 100 | 1519 |
| 13 | 8 | 343 | 4594 |
| 12 | 36 | 1141 | 14014 |
| 11 | 141 | 3789 | 42100 |
| 10 | 537 | 12829 | 120466 |
| 9 | 1784 | 41682 | 335027 |
| 8 | 6628 | 138361 | 880569 |
| 7 | 24071 | 384414 | 2074296 |
| 6 | 89038 | 951538 | 3893583 |
| 5 | 329507 | 1804325 | 4940827 |