Quantifying the importance of the key sites on haemagglutinin in determining the selection advantage of influenza virus: Using A/H3N2 as an example Dear Editor ,
Authors' contributionsSZ and MHW conceived the study. SZ carried out the analysis, and drafted the first manuscript. SZ and MHW discussed the results. All authors read, revised the manuscript, and gave final approval for publication.
Declaration of Competing InterestMHW is a shareholder of Beth Bioinformatics Co., Ltd, and BCYZ is a shareholder of Beth Bioinformatics Co., Ltd and Health View Bioanalytics Ltd.
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Ethics approval and consent to participateThe ethical approval or individual consent was not applicable.
Availability of data and materialsAll influenza viruses sequence data were collected via the influenza virus database (IVD) of the National center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Please see the online supporting information for details.
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