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Cyberbiosecurity, the aspect of biosecurity involving the digital representation of biological data, had already been emerging as a matter of public concern even prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key issues of concern include, among others, the privacy of patient data, the security of public health databases, the integrity of diagnostic test data, the integrity of public biological databases, the security implications of automated laboratory systems and the security of proprietary biological engineering advances.

1Using a method for pathogen screening in DNA synthesis orders, we have identified a 1 2 number of amino acid sequences that distinguish 2019-nCoV (Wuhan Coronavirus) from all 1 3 other known viruses in Coronaviridae. We find three main regions of unique sequence: two in 1 4 the 1ab polyprotein QHO60603.1, one in surface glycoprotein QHO60594.1.

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