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23 May 2025
Viruses | Notable Papers on Virus Bioinformatics
1. “Fragment-Based Approaches Identified Tecovirimat-Competitive Novel Drug Candidate for Targeting the F13 Protein of the Monkeypox Virus”
by Yasir Ali, Hina Imtiaz, Muhammad Mutaal Tahir, Fouzia Gul, Umair Ali Khan Saddozai, Ashfaq ur Rehman, Zhi-Guang Ren, Saadullah Khattak and Xin-Ying Ji
Viruses 2023, 15(2), 570; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15020570
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/2/570
2. “Structure and Function of Hoc—A Novel Environment Sensing Device Encoded by T4 and Other Bacteriophages”
by Andrei Fokine, Mohammad Zahidul Islam, Qianglin Fang, Zhenguo Chen, Lei Sun and Venigalla B. Rao
Viruses 2023, 15(7), 1517; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15071517
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/7/1517
3. “Anti-Dengue: A Machine Learning-Assisted Prediction of Small Molecule Antivirals against Dengue Virus and Implications in Drug Repurposing”
by Sakshi Gautam, Anamika Thakur, Akanksha Rajput and Manoj Kumar
Viruses 2024, 16(1), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16010045
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/1/45
4. “Idiotope-Driven T-Cell/B-Cell Collaboration-Based T-Cell Epitope Prediction Using B-Cell Receptor Repertoire Sequences in Infectious Diseases”
by Yukio Nakamura, Meng Ling Moi, Takashi Shiina, Tadasu Shin-I and Ryuji Suzuki
Viruses 2023, 15(5), 1186; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15051186
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/5/1186
5. “Bioinformatic Surveillance Leads to Discovery of Two Novel Putative Bunyaviruses Associated with Black Soldier Fly”
by Hunter K. Walt, Emilia Kooienga, Jonathan A. Cammack, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Heather R. Jordan, Florencia Meyer and Federico G. Hoffmann
Viruses 2023, 15(8), 1654; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15081654
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/8/1654
6. “Navigating the Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of Current Virus Databases”
by Muriel Ritsch, Noriko A. Cassman, Shahram Saghaei and Manja Marz
Viruses 2023, 15(9), 1834; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15091834
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/9/1834
7. “Covalent Inhibitors from Saudi Medicinal Plants Target RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase (RdRp) of SARS-CoV-2”
by Ahmed H. Bakheit, Quaiser Saquib, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Sabiha M. Ansari, Abdullah M. Al-Salem and Abdulaziz A. Al-Khedhairy
Viruses 2023, 15(11), 2175; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15112175
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/11/2175
8. “SARSMutOnto: An Ontology for SARS-CoV-2 Lineages and Mutations”
by Jamal Bakkas, Mohamed Hanine, Abderrahman Chekry, Said Gounane, Isabel de la Torre Díez, Vivian Lipari, Nohora Milena Martínez López and Imran Ashraf
Viruses 2023, 15(2), 505; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15020505
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/2/505
9. “Rational Design of Profile HMMs for Sensitive and Specific Sequence Detection with Case Studies Applied to Viruses, Bacteriophages, and Casposons”
by Liliane S. Oliveira, Alejandro Reyes, Bas E. Dutilh and Arthur Gruber
Viruses 2023, 15(2), 519; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15020519
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/2/519
10. “CoVigator—A Knowledge Base for Navigating SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Variants”
by Thomas Bukur, Pablo Riesgo-Ferreiro, Patrick Sorn, Ranganath Gudimella, Johannes Hausmann, Thomas Rösler, Martin Löwer, Barbara Schrörs and Ugur Sahin
Viruses 2023, 15(6), 1391; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15061391
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/6/1391
