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Determine the feasibility of reconstructing complete, full-length viral haplotypes (~8,600 nucleotides) from mixed viral populations using next-generation sequencing platforms.

June 27, 2014Nucleic Acids ResearchOpen Access

Full-length haplotype reconstruction to infer the structure of heterogeneous virus populations

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FGFrancesca Di GiallonardoAustralian Human Rights Commission ATArmin TöpferPacific Biosciences (United States)MRMélanie ReyUniversity of Basel

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Comparative sequencing study demonstrates full-length viral genome reconstruction in heterogeneous HIV-1 mixtures, indicating new avenues to track viral evolution and pathogenesis.

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Determine the feasibility of reconstructing complete, full-length viral haplotypes (~8,600 nucleotides) from mixed viral populations using next-generation sequencing platforms.
Tested optimized amplification, sequencing, and computational assembly workflows on defined mixtures of cloned HIV-1 strains and clinical samples from an HIV-1 superinfected individual.
Benchmarked and comparatively evaluated performance across three next-generation sequencing platforms: 454 Life Sciences/Roche, Illumina, and Pacific Biosciences.
Achieved successful full-length genome assembly of approximately 8,600 nucleotides directly from heterogeneous HIV-1 strain mixtures.
Demonstrated accurate reconstruction of individual viral haplotypes across both synthetic clone mixtures and patient clinical samples.

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Giallonardo et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7717f8d3a6aa87c6bd90db https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku537

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Comparative sequencing study demonstrates full-length viral genome reconstruction in heterogeneous HIV-1 mixtures, indicating new avenues to track viral evolution and pathogenesis.

Full-length haplotype reconstruction to infer the structure of heterogeneous virus populations

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Full-length haplotype reconstruction to infer the structure of heterogeneous virus populations

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