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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC1200800 & 2018YFC0840402), Research Project of African Swine Fever of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KJZD-SW-L06), China Mega-Project for Infectious Disease (2017ZX10103005-005), the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology Research Fund (SKLVBF201902). J.L. is supported by Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS (2019091). We acknowledge Lei Zhang (the Core Facility and Technical Support in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS) for supporting in the genome sequencing.

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  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Lijia Jia, Ke Wu, Hongping Wei, Jianjun Chen & Di Liu

  2. Computational Virology Group, Center for Bacteria and Viruses Resources and Bioinformation, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Lijia Jia, Mengwei Jiang, Ke Wu, Juefu Hu, Mengchan Hao, Haizhou Liu, Jianjun Chen & Di Liu

  3. African Swine Fever Regional Laboratory of China, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Hongping Wei, Jianjun Chen & Di Liu

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Lijia Jia, Ke Wu, Wenjun Liu, Jing Li & Di Liu

  5. GrandOmics Biosciences, Beijing, 101312, China

    Yang Wang & Depeng Wang

  6. NextOmics Biosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Weipeng Quan & Depeng Wang

  7. CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Wenhui Fan, Wenjun Liu & Jing Li

  8. Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Wenjun Liu, Jianjun Chen & Di Liu

  9. Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Science, Changchun, 130122, China

    Rongliang Hu

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Jia, L., Jiang, M., Wu, K. et al. Nanopore sequencing of African swine fever virus. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 160–164 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-9828-1

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