Nicole Welch

Mar 26, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Nicole Welch |Arvind Varsani |Anna K Belford

AbstractThe initial objective of this study was to shed light on the evolution of small DNA tumor viruses by analyzing de novo assemblies of publicly available deep sequencing datasets. The survey generated a searchable database of contig snapshots representing more than 100,000 Sequence Read Archive records. Using modern structure-aware search tools, we iteratively broadened the search to include an increasingly wide range of other virus families.