Population Genomics of Human Viruses
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 16885
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human virus evolution; virus population genetics; geographic structure of viral populations; virus origin; arenavirus genetic diversity; herpesvirus genetics; coronavirus evolution
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the advent of high-throughput sequencing approaches and the parallel increase in the sophistication and quality of computational tools for storing and mining large sequence datasets have greatly enhanced our ability to genetically characterize viral populations. The enormous potential of these developments has become more than clear during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, but the large-scale sequencing of other human viruses has also provided invaluable information about their epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics. It is thus becoming evident that the genetic diversity of viral populations is determined by viral intrinsic features, but also influenced by host factors, by human population interactions among themselves, and by anthropic changes to the natural environment.
This Special Issue “Population Genomics of Human Viruses”, is intended for original papers and reviews that further our insight into human virus genetic diversity, evolution, and ecology using population genomics approaches. Computational tools to characterize viral populations, track their spread and analyze their spatial/temporal structure will also be welcome, together with original databases of viral genome diversity and relevant metadata.
Dr. Manuela Sironi
Dr. Rachele Cagliani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human viruses
- viral populations
- evolutionary genomics
- virus genetic diversity
- spatial/temporal population structure
- computational tools
- epidemiology
- viral ecology
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