Time-course profiling of bovine alphaherpesvirus 1.1 transcriptome using multiplatform sequencing.
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Time-course profiling of bovine alphaherpesvirus 1.1 transcriptome using multiplatform sequencing.
Moldován Norbert N Torma Gábor G Gulyás Gábor G Hornyák Ákos Á Zádori Zoltán Z Jefferson Victoria A VA Csabai Zsolt Z Boldogkői Miklós M Tombácz Dóra D Meyer Florencia F Boldogkői Zsolt Z
Scientific reports 20201124 1
Long-read sequencing (LRS) has become a standard approach for transcriptome analysis in recent years. Bovine alphaherpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) is an important pathogen of cattle worldwide. This study reports the profiling of the dynamic lytic transcriptome of BoHV-1 using two long-read sequencing (LRS) techniques, the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION, and the LoopSeq synthetic LRS methods, using multiple library preparation protocols. In this work, we annotated viral mRNAs and non-coding transcript ...[more]
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