About this Research Topic
During the last decade, NGS allows us to discover thousands of novel viruses from different samples and reveal the whole community of viruses within one sample. Especially after the global COVID-19 outbreak, studies on viruses have attracted more and more effort. But there are still substantial dark matters of viruses on earth. Besides the diversity of viruses, the study of interactions between virus and host is always a hotpot. Metagenome and virome allow scientists to investigate the complex network between phages and bacteria. Because the virus and the host often share some similar genome fragments, it increases the difficulty to identify the virus sequences, especially for phages. Several new pipelines or tools were published, which were quite helpful for virome data analysis. In summary, we believe that virome will come to a new stage.
The main goals we would like to achieve in this research topic are:
- Expand the knowledge about the composition and taxonomy of viruses from different samples, such as faeces, tissue, water, soil, sediment, etc.
- Bridge the knowledge gap between phages' diversity and ecological functions in different niches, such as water, soil, sediment, gut, extreme environment, etc.
- Develop more advanced technologies that can be applied in virome study, including virus-like particles separation and enrichment methods, new sequencing strategies, and data analysis tools.
The Research Topic is going to collect original research, review, mini-review, perspective, and opinion articles on the following themes, but is not limited to:
• Discover novel viruses based on culture, metagenome and virome.
• Describe the diversity of viruses from all kinds of samples.
• Explore the interactions among phages, bacteria, and even bacterial hosts (human/animal/plant).
• Investigate the ecological functions of phages in geochemistry.
• Apply nanopore sequencing platform in virome study.
• Develop novel methods of virus-like particles enrichment and virus nucleic acid enrichment.
• Build new bioinformatical tools for virome study.
Note: Topic Editor Dr. Tao Jin is Chief Technology Officer, Guangdong
Magigene Biotechnology Co ., Ltd, and declares no competing interests regarding the Research Topic Subject.
The main goals we would like to achieve in this research topic are:
- Expand the knowledge about the composition and taxonomy of viruses from different samples, such as faeces, tissue, water, soil, sediment, etc.
- Bridge the knowledge gap between phages' diversity and ecological functions in different niches, such as water, soil, sediment, gut, extreme environment, etc.
- Develop more advanced technologies that can be applied in virome study, including virus-like particles separation and enrichment methods, new sequencing strategies, and data analysis tools.
The Research Topic is going to collect original research, review, mini-review, perspective, and opinion articles on the following themes, but is not limited to:
• Discover novel viruses based on culture, metagenome and virome.
• Describe the diversity of viruses from all kinds of samples.
• Explore the interactions among phages, bacteria, and even bacterial hosts (human/animal/plant).
• Investigate the ecological functions of phages in geochemistry.
• Apply nanopore sequencing platform in virome study.
• Develop novel methods of virus-like particles enrichment and virus nucleic acid enrichment.
• Build new bioinformatical tools for virome study.
Note: Topic Editor Dr. Tao Jin is Chief Technology Officer, Guangdong
Magigene Biotechnology Co ., Ltd, and declares no competing interests regarding the Research Topic Subject.
Keywords: virome, phage, NGS, Nanopore, viruse-like particles enrichment, bioinformatics, ecology, taxonomy
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