This is a great idea, but the divergence in nCoV is in the Nterminal of the spike protein - and see how divergent that is (ht to Brian Foley) http://virological.org/t/ncov-2019-spike-protein-receptor-binding-domain-shares-high-amino-acid-identity-with-a-coronavirus-recovered-from-a-pangolin-viral-metagenomic-dataset/362/3 … This is the biomarker (500bp unique to nCoV)- and its not there in the meta-sequences. https://sanchakblog.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/easy-interface-to-check-sequence-unique-to-human-wuhan-coronoviruses/ …pic.twitter.com/hMXY03DPa1