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| Title |
Finding and identifying the viral needle in the metagenomic haystack: trends and challenges
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00739 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hayssam Soueidan, Louise-Amélie Schmitt, Thierry Candresse, Macha Nikolski |
| Abstract |
Collectively, viruses have the greatest genetic diversity on Earth, occupy extremely varied niches and are likely able to infect all living organisms. Viral infections are an important issue for human health and cause considerable economic losses when agriculturally important crops or husbandry animals are infected. The advent of metagenomics has provided a precious tool to study viruses by sampling them in natural environments and identifying the genomic composition of a sample. However, reaching a clear recognition and taxonomic assignment of the identified viruses has been hampered by the computational difficulty of these problems. In this perspective paper we examine the trends in current research for the identification of viral sequences in a metagenomic sample, pinpoint the intrinsic computational difficulties for the identification of novel viral sequences within metagenomic samples, and suggest possible avenues to overcome them. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 22 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 27% |
| France | 3 | 14% |
| Finland | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| China | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Norway | 1 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 32% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 15 | 68% |
| Members of the public | 6 | 27% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 100 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 3 | 3% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 89 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 31 | 31% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Unknown | 11 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 56 | 56% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 11% |
| Computer Science | 8 | 8% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Unknown | 13 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 July 2016.
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#2,750,650
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#2,365
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#40,483
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#32
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