Improving Virus Taxonomy by Recontextualizing Sequence-Based Classification with Biologically Relevant Data: the Case of the <italic toggle="yes">Alphacoronavirus 1</italic> Species

ABSTRACT The difficulties related to virus taxonomy have been amplified by recent advances in next-generation sequencing and metagenomics, prompting the field to revisit the question of what constitutes a useful viral classification. Here, taking a challenging classification found in coronaviruses,...

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Main Authors: Gary R. Whittaker, Nicole M. André, Jean Kaoru Millet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-02-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphereDirect.00463-17