Emerging infectious diseases significantly threaten global public health and socioeconomic
security. The majority of emerging infectious disease outbreaks are caused by …

Emerging zoonotic diseases have received tremendous interests in recent years, as they
pose a significant threat to human health, animal welfare, and economic stability. A high …

Viromics, or viral metagenomics, is a relatively new and burgeoning field of research that
studies the complete collection of viruses forming part of the microbiota in any given niche. It …

Data that catalogue viral diversity on Earth have been fragmented across sources,
disciplines, formats, and various degrees of open sharing, posing challenges for research …

Viruses are part of the microbiome and have essential roles in immunology, evolution,
biogeochemical cycles, health, and disease progression. Viruses influence a wide variety of …

Recent advances in sequencing technologies have opened the door for the classification of
the human virome. While taxonomic classification can be applied to the viruses identified in …

Highlights•Models predict zoonotic risk using viral traits, host range or genome
composition.•Input data availability defines prospects for zoonosis prediction before …

Metagenomics has enabled sequencing of viral communities from a myriad of different
environments. Viral metagenomic studies routinely uncover sequences with no recognizable …

The fields of viral ecology and evolution are rapidly expanding, motivated in part by
concerns around emerging zoonoses. One consequence is the proliferation of host–virus …

Virus taxonomy is the classification of viruses into categories called taxa and the
development and implementation of a standardized nomenclature for taxa. Whereas virus …