About Virus Bioinformatics

There are 10³¹ individual viruses on the planet - 100 million times more than the number of stars in the universe. They occur in all types of environments and infect all types of living organisms from bacteria to humans. There is a growing range of experimental techniques available to study viruses, including imaging, protein structure determination, genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. For the SARS-Cov-2 virus alone, more than 10 million genomic sequences have been submitted to public repositories. Unlimited diversity, unusual lifestyle, great variety of replication strategies, compact genome organization, and rapid rate of evolution of viruses pose significant challenges for data analysis and necessitate the development of specialized bioinformatics tools.

This collection invites original research papers, reviews, opinion articles, and application notes describing methodological advances as well medical and biotechnological applications of virus bioinformatics. The list of relevant topics includes virus evolution and phylogenetics, virus-host interactions, structural bioinformatics of viruses, viral genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics and proteomics, RNA informatics, modeling, synthetic biology, and viral immunology.

Keywords: Sequence analysis; Next-generation sequencing; Structural Biology; Gene expression; Protein interactions; Epidemiology; Evolution.

Submission deadline: This Collection is now closed for submissions.

This collection is part of the Bioinformatics and Pathogens Gateways.

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