Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This video shows the complete genome sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 epidemic (Wuhan-Hu-1).

Each section represents a different gene. The red genes are the ones responsible for the virus structure. The blue and green ones provide the necessary machinery to infect and replicate. The black ones are the leader and trailer sequences.

The letters represent the nucleotides that make up the genome of the virus (RNA). A, U, G, and C stands for Adenine, Uracil, Guanine, and Cytosine. Many RNA viruses, like SARS-CoV-2, ends in a long chain of adenine nucleotides (called poly-A tail) which increases the stability.

This Karaoke version (SARS-aoke?) has been generated using Google Text-to-Speech and open data from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

GenBank: MN908947
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947?report=graph

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:05 - 5'UTR
00:01:19 - NSP1
00:03:51 - NSP2
00:12:44 - NSP3
00:39:47 - NSP4
00:46:47 - NSP5
00:51:03 - NSP6
00:55:08 - NSP7
00:56:19 - NSP8
00:59:05 - NSP9
01:00:40 - NSP10
01:02:37 - NSP12
01:15:40 - NSP13
01:24:05 - NSP14
01:31:26 - NSP15
01:36:15 - NSP16
01:40:24 - S
01:58:12 - ORF3a
02:02:04 - E
02:03:09 - M
02:06:12 - ORF6
02:07:08 - ORF7a
02:08:51 - ORF7b
02:09:29 - ORF8
02:11:12 - N
02:17:07 - ORF10
02:17:40 - 3'UTR