Zika genomics urgently need standardized and curated reference sequences

Kristof Theys; Pieter Libin; Kai Dallmeier; Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña; Anne-Mieke Vandamme; Lize Cuypers; Ana B Abecasis

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006528

Zika genomics urgently need standardized and curated reference sequences

PLoS Pathog. 2017 Sep 7;13(9):e1006528. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006528. eCollection 2017 Sep.

Authors

Kristof Theys¹, Pieter Libin^{1

2}, Kai Dallmeier³, Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña^{4

5}, Anne-Mieke Vandamme^{1

5}, Lize Cuypers¹, Ana B Abecasis^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium.
² Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
³ KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Molecular Biology and Immunology Department, Fundación Instituto de Immunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Basic Sciences Department, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁵ Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, IHMT, University Nova de Lisboa, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Genomics / standards*
Humans
Reference Values
Zika Virus / genetics*
Zika Virus Infection / genetics

Grants and funding

KT is funded by a postdoctoral grant of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO). PL is funded by a doctoral grant of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). This work has been funded by FCT through funds to GHTM-UID/Multi/04413/2013. The VIROGENESIS project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 634650. This research was supported in part by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programs ZikaPLAN (Agreement No 734584) and ZIKAlliance (Agreement No 734548). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.