Automatic Identification of SARS Coronavirus using Compression-Complexity Measures

Karthi Balasubramanian; Nithin Nagaraj

Genome data classification comes under the broad field of bioinformatics, an established multidisciplinary field for over three decades, encompassing physical and life sciences, computer science and engineering. Many fundamental problems in the fields of medicine and biology are being tackled using the tools of bioinformatics. The main requirement for 2 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.24.006007 doi: bioRxiv preprint accomplishing such tasks is the availability of sequenced genome data. This has been the focus of researchers for the past few decades and efforts have been put by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish Genbank R 2 , a genetic sequence database containing annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. Ever since its inception in 1982, there has been an exponential rise in the number of sequences in Genbank. This has provided the required resources for researchers and industry people alike for delving in to the field of bioinformatics.