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September 22, 2019

Transcriptomic study of Herpes simplex virus type-1 using full-length sequencing techniques

Authors: Zsolt Boldogkoi, Zsolt and Szucs, Attila and Balázs, Zsolt and Sharon, Donald and Snyder, Michael and Tombácz, Dóra

Herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) is a human pathogenic member of the Alphaherpesvirinae subfamily of herpesviruses. The HSV-1 genome is a large double-stranded DNA specifying about 85 protein coding genes. The latest surveys have demonstrated that the HSV-1 transcriptome is much more complex than it had been thought before. Here, we provide a long-read sequencing dataset, which was generated by using the RSII and Sequel systems from Pacific Biosciences (PacBio), as well as MinION sequencing system from Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). This dataset contains 39,096 reads of inserts (ROIs) mapped to the HSV-1 genome (X14112) in RSII sequencing, while Sequel sequencing yielded 77,851 ROIs. The MinION cDNA sequencing altogether resulted in 158,653 reads, while the direct RNA-seq produced 16,516 reads. This dataset can be utilized for the identification of novel HSV RNAs and transcripts isoforms, as well as for the comparison of the quality and length of the sequencing reads derived from the currently available long- read sequencing platforms. The various library preparation approaches can also be compared with each other.

Journal: Scientific data
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.266
Year: 2018

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