Table 1.

Sequence homology information between MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 aligned clusters

Cluster No.	Query	Subject	Score	Identities/Matches	Alignment length (bps)	Gene
	MERS-CoV	SARS-CoV-2
1	14605–18268	14242–17906	628 bits (340)	2620 (70%)	3728	ORF1b
2	21081–21594	20749–21263	102 bits (55)	372 (71%)	525	ORF1b
3	10778–10895	10414–10530	56.5 bits (30)	90 (76%)	119	ORF1a
4	11464–11486	11108–11130	38.1 bits (20)	22 (96%)	23	ORF1a
5	2246–2261	20138–20123	30.7 bits (16)	16 (100%)	16	ORF1a/ORF1b
6	19910–19925	21463–21448	30.7 bits (16)	16 (100%)	16	ORF1b

All of the data was extracted from Blast 2 sequences using NCBI after aligning MERS-CoV genome with SARS-CoV-2 genome.