Identification of novel viruses using VirusHunter--an automated data analysis pipeline.

Quick and accurate identification of microbial pathogens is essential for both diagnosis and response to emerging infectious diseases. The advent of next-generation sequencing technology offers an unprecedented platform for rapid sequencing-based identification of novel viruses. We have developed a...

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Main Authors: Guoyan Zhao, Siddharth Krishnamurthy, Zhengqiu Cai, Vsevolod L Popov, Amelia P Travassos da Rosa, Hilda Guzman, Song Cao, Herbert W Virgin, Robert B Tesh, David Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3805514?pdf=render