During a pandemic, science needs data to generate helpful evidence, and researchers assume this responsibility despite the risk of potential bias. This is the response to the comment made by Pedro Romero, who argued that our manuscript did not use reassembling and mapping strategies for corroborating mutations, and lacked bootstrap support in the phylogenetic analysis.
Keywords: SARS coronavir; biostatistics & bioinformatics; evolution; genetic mapping; genetic variabili; genetics; virus classification.
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