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Consent for publication: Not applicable. This study did not include patients.
Availability of data and materials: All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary information files. Accession numbers of sequences used in this study are indicated in table2, in the material section of the article. All data generated in this study are available in a public repository https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Comparative_study_of_SARS-CoV-2_proteins_and_antigenic_proteins_in_BCG_OPV_MMR_and_other_vaccines_evidence_of_possible_putative_protective_effect/13220762
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Funding: This study was funded by the Tunisian ministry of higher education and Scientific Research (Research laboratory: Virus, Vectors and Hosts). It was also partially supported by the European project PHINDaccess: Strengthening Omics data analysis capacities in pathogen-host interaction (Grant agreement ID: 811034).
Authors' contributions:
SH-B and KG designed the study, SH-B and HO wrote the papers, HO, RT, KA and M L contributed to carry out analysis, SH-B, IBM, MK and HT validated the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgement: This study was funded by the Tunisian ministry of higher education and Scientific Research (Research laboratory: Virus, Vectors and Hosts). It was also partially supported by the European project PHINDaccess: Strengthening Omics data analysis capacities in pathogen-host interaction (Grant agreement ID: 811034).
Authors’ Information
S Haddad-Boubaker, PhD, HDR in Virology from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis. She is an Assistant Professor in the Laboratory of Clinical Virology, at Pasteur Institute of Tunis, which acts as the WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Poliomyelitis and Measles in the EMRO region. She is also a Professor of Medical Virology and the coordinator of the Microbiology section in the High Institute of health techniques in Tunis, Tunisia. Her research interest includes molecular characterization and omics data analysis of Human viruses, especially poliovirus, enteric viruses and SARS-CoV2.
H Othman, PhD is a bioinformaticist at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of the Witwatersrand. His main interests are pharmacogenomics, Molecular modeling, and data science. He is an avid supporter of reproducible research practices and data sharing trying to increase awareness about these issues in bioinformatics and genomics fields.
R Touati, PhD in electrical engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunisia (ENIT). Currently, she has a Post-Doctoral position at the Laboratory of Human Genetics (LR99ES10) at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT). Her research interest includes genomic signal processing, bioinformatics, pattern recognition and machine learning.
K Ayouni, PhD student in the Laboratory of Clinical Virology, at Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunisia.
M Lakhal, PhD student in Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunisia.
Prof I Ben Mustapha, MD. She is a Professor in Immunology in the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis and a head of research Team in the Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections in Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia.
K Ghedira, PhD in Bioinformatics. He is an assistant professor in bioinformatics at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis. He is a head of research team in the Laboratory of Biomathematics, Biomathematics and Biostatistics in Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia. His research interests are mainly focused on OMICS data integration and functional genomics.
Prof. M Kharrat, PhD in Human Genetics from the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT). He is Professor in Human Genetics in 2006 at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT). He is the head of the Genetic Human laboratory (LR99ES10) at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT). His research interests include Human Genetics.
Prof. H Triki, MD: She is Professor in Virology in 2006 at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (FMT). She is the head of laboratory of Clinical Virology, which acts as the WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Poliomyelitis and Measles in the EMRO region. In 2018, she was assigned as Director of the Clinical Investigation Center entitled: “Transmissible diseases: Natural history and innovated tools for diagnostic, prevention and treatment” in Pasteur Institute of Tunis.