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SUBMITTER: Silva RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4514932 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20150402 15
<h4>Motivation</h4>Ebola virus causes high mortality hemorrhagic fevers, with more than 25 000 cases and 10 000 deaths in the current outbreak. Only experimental therapies are available, thus, novel diagnosis tools and druggable targets are needed.<h4>Results</h4>Analysis of Ebola virus genomes from the current outbreak reveals the presence of short DNA sequences that appear nowhere in the human genome. We identify the shortest such sequences with lengths between 12 and 14. Only three absent seq ...[more]