Filovirus RefSeq entries: evaluation and selection of filovirus type variants, type sequences, and names.

ABSTRACT: Sequence determination of complete or coding-complete genomes of viruses is becoming common practice for supporting the work of epidemiologists, ecologists, virologists, and taxonomists. Sequencing duration and costs are rapidly decreasing, sequencing hardware is under modification for use by non-experts, and software is constantly being improved to simplify sequence data management and analysis. Thus, analysis of virus disease outbreaks on the molecular level is now feasible, including characterization of the evolution of individual virus populations in single patients over time. The increasing accumulation of sequencing data creates a management problem for the curators of commonly used sequence databases and an entry retrieval problem for end users. Therefore, utilizing the data to thei

SUBMITTER: Kuhn JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4189044 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature