Monday, February 13, 2012

Cool paper from DerisiLab on viruses in unknown tropical febrile illnesses #metagenomics #viroarray

Quick post:

Figure 3. Circovirus-like
NI sequence coverage and phylogeny.
Cool new paper from Joe Derisi's lab: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Virus Identification in Unknown Tropical Febrile Illness Cases Using Deep Sequencing

Full citation: Yozwiak NL, Skewes-Cox P, Stenglein MD, Balmaseda A, Harris E, et al. (2012) Virus Identification in Unknown Tropical Febrile Illness Cases Using Deep Sequencing. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 6(2): e1485. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001485

They used a combination of a viral microarray and metagenomic sequencing to characterize viruses in various samples from patients with febrile illness.  And they found some semi-novel viruses in the sample.  Definitely worth a look.

Note - here are some other posts of mine about Derisi:

See some follow up discussion on Google+ here.

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