Full genome sequence of the Western Reserve strain of vaccinia virus determined by third-generation sequencing.

Authors: Prazsák, István and Tombácz, Dóra and Szucs, Attila and Dénes, Béla and Snyder, Michael and Boldogkoi, Zsolt

The vaccinia virus is a large, complex virus belonging to thePoxviridaefamily. Here, we report the complete, annotated genome sequence of the neurovirulent Western Reserve laboratory strain of this virus, which was sequenced on the Pacific Biosciences RS II and Oxford Nanopore MinION platforms. Copyright © 2018 Prazsák et al.

Journal: Genome announcements
DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.01570-17
Year: 2018

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