Genomic Studies Related to SARS-CoV-2 and Other Common Pathogens
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 2973
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Interests: genomics; biostatistics
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Dear Colleagues,
Functional genomics can be a preferable tool to study expression changes induced by viral infections, such as COVID-19, as the changes tend to be dynamic or multilevel, as well as irreducibly complex. The corollary of the complexity is that there is no simple reductionist explanation of how an animal cell reacts to a pathogen, either in the early or late stages of an infection. Rather, a genome of the infected cell can move as a whole to a new transcriptomic state. If this hypothesis is generally true, science can benefit from microarray profiling of gene expression patterns during infections.
In the planned Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, I would like to invite the submission of further genomic studies of responses to common pathogens. Transcriptomic or statistical studies are of most interest (genomic studies are also of interest if they are correlated with host responses to an infection).
Dr. Łukasz Huminiecki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional genomics
- microarrays
- RNAseq
- bioinformatics
- SARS-CoV-2
- COVID-19
- viral infection
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