Virus Bioinformatics

Dmitrij Frishman is Professor for Bioinformatics at Munich Technical University (TUM) Manja Marz is Professor for High-Throughput Sequencing Analysis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Chapter 1 ◾ Comparative Genomics of Viruses

Thomas Rattei

Chapter 2 ◾ Current Techniques and Approaches for Metagenomic Exploration of Phage Diversity

Simon Roux and Mark Borodovsky

Chapter 3 ◾ Direct RNA Sequencing for Complete Viral Genomes

Sebastian Krautwurst, Ronald Dijkman, Volker Thiel,

Andi Krumbholz, and Manja Marz

Chapter 4 ◾ Computational Methods for Viral Quasispecies Assembly

Kim Philipp Jablonski and Niko Beerenwinkel

Chapter 5 ◾ Functional RNA Structures in the 3′ UTR of Mosquito-Borne Flaviviruses

Michael T. Wolfinger, Roman Ochsenreiter, and

Ivo L. Hofacker

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Chapter 6 ◾ Structural Bioinformatics of Influenza Virus RNA Genomes

Alexander P. Gultyaev, René C.L. Olsthoorn,

Monique I. Spronken, and Mathilde Richard

Chapter 7

◾ Structural Genomics and Interactomics of SARS-COV2: Decoding Basic Building Blocks of the Coronavirus

Ziyang Gao, Senbao Lu, Oleksandr Narykov, Suhas

Srinivasan, and Dmitry Korkin

Chapter 8 ◾ Computational Tools for Discovery of CD8 T cell Epitopes and CTL Immune Escape in Viruses Causing Persistent Infections

Hadi Karimzadeh, Daniel Habermann, Daniel Hoffmann,

and Michael Roggendorf

Chapter 9 ◾ Virus-Host Transcriptomics

Caroline C. Friedel

Chapter 10 ◾ Sequence Classification with Machine Learning at the Example of Viral Host Prediction

Florian Mock and Manja Marz

Chapter 11 ◾ Master Regulators of Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 as Promising Targets for Drug Repurposing

Manasa KP , Kamilya Altynbekova, and Alexander Kel

Chapter 12 ◾ The Potential of Computational Genomics in the Design of Oncolytic Viruses

Henni Zommer and Tamir Tuller

Chapter 13 ◾ Sharing Knowledge in Virology

Edouard De Castro, Chantal Hulo, Patrick Masson, and

Philippe Le Mercier