Bioinformaticists have been able to do that with traditional algorithms for years (dynamic programming gets you a long way to compute an edit distance for examp

Bioinformaticists have been able to do that with traditional algorithms for years (dynamic programming gets you a long way to compute an edit distance for example). It is probably the first thing that was done once the COVID-19 genome was made public. A quick googling gave me that summary of the results: https://www.news-medical.net/health/How-Does-the-SARS-Virus-Genome-Compare-to-Other-Viruses.aspx https://www.news-medical.net/health/How-Does-the-SARS-Virus-...