Viruses are abundant and diverse entities that have important roles in public health,
ecology, and agriculture. The identification and surveillance of viruses rely on an …

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) and its use in recovering and assembling novel virus
sequences from environmental, human clinical, veterinary and plant samples has unearthed …

Viruses are the most abundant biological entity on Earth, infect cellular organisms from all
domains of life, and are central players in the global biosphere. Over the last century, the …

Abstract The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is tasked with
classifying viruses into taxa (phyla to species) and devising taxon names. Virus names and …

Virus discovery has been fueled by new technologies ever since the first viruses were
discovered at the end of the 19th century. Starting with mechanical devices that provided …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized virus discovery. Notwithstanding, a
vertical pipeline, from sample preparation to data analysis, has not been available to the …

Viruses are widely recognized as critical members of all microbiomes. Metagenomics
enables large-scale exploration of the global virosphere, progressively revealing the …

High throughput sequencing (HTS) has revolutionised virus detection and discovery,
allowing for the untargeted characterisation of whole viromes. Viral metagenomics studies …

A universal taxonomy of viruses is essential for a comprehensive view of the virus world and
for communicating the complicated evolutionary relationships among viruses. However …

Historically, virus taxonomy has been limited to describing viruses that were readily
cultivated in the laboratory or emerging in natural biomes. Metagenomic analyses, single …