(CNN) — The genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was submitted to a National Institutes of Health database two weeks before its release by the Chinese government, ...

The spreadsheet indicated that the scientists had uploaded the sequences to an online database called the Sequence Read Archive, managed by the U.S. government’s National Library of Medicine.

New USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE, will be revealed on 21 May at the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) meeting in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

In November 2001, the Los Alamos database team added the sequence of the human herpesvirus 2 (HSV-2), the cause of most genital herpes cases, to the database.