Viral Genomics and Metagenomics
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2024) | Viewed by 7339
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Viruses are the main pathogens that cause diseases. In recent years, many novel pathogenic viruses have emerged and caused disease epidemics worldwide (e.g., Zika virus, Ebola virus, SARS-CoV-2). This seriously hinders the development of the world economy and poses a threat to people’s health and lives.
Viral metagenomics has the potential advantage of uncovering new viral pathogens or recombinant/reassortant types. It makes it possible to circumvent the steps of virus isolation and culture, to take the environmental virome as the research object, and to be combined with next-generation high-throughput sequencing technology to obtain all the virome information in the sample in a short period of time. At present, viral metagenomics is also used for exploring the correlation between viruses and diseases in clinical disease diagnosis. Using viral metagenomics to discover novel viruses as early as possible and understand their genome information is of great significance for disease prevention and treatment.
This Special Issue aims to analyze the virome of human, animal or environment using metagenomic approaches, and to clarify the pathogenic relationships between viruses and animals or humans through the subsequent research of virus etiology and epidemiology. This is applicable to, but not limited to, the report of metagenomics approaches as well as etiology and epidemiology research related to viral diseases.
Dr. Shixing Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metagenomics
- next-generation sequencing
- virome
- virus evolution
- infectious diseases
- viral genomics
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