Development and evaluation of a bioinformatics approach for designing molecular assays for viral detection.

Viruses belonging to the Flaviviridae and Bunyaviridae families show considerable genetic diversity. However, this diversity is not necessarily taken into account when developing diagnostic assays, which are often based on the pairwise alignment of a limited number of sequences. Our objective was to...

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Main Authors: Pierre H H Schneeberger, Joël F Pothier, Andreas Bühlmann, Brion Duffy, Christian Beuret, Jürg Utzinger, Jürg E Frey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5444669?pdf=render