Puzzles, challenges, and information reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 quasispecies

E Domingo, B Martínez-González… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Upon the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the human population, it was conjectured that for
this coronavirus the dynamic intra-host heterogeneity typical of RNA viruses would be toned …

Nanopore sequencing technology and its applications

P Zheng, C Zhou, Y Ding, B Liu, L Lu, F Zhu… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since the development of Sanger sequencing in 1977, sequencing technology has played a
pivotal role in molecular biology research by enabling the interpretation of biological genetic …

Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals

H Gu, AA Quadeer, P Krishnan, DYM Ng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Viral and host factors can shape SARS-CoV-2 evolution. However, little is known about
lineage-specific and vaccination-specific mutations that occur within individuals. Here, we …

Impact of vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 evolution and immune escape variants

D Jena, A Ghosh, A Jha, P Prasad, SK Raghav - Vaccine, 2024 - Elsevier
Vaccines and host genetic factors can influence the SARS-CoV-2 evolution and emergence
of new variants. Even vaccinated cases get affected as virus continues to evolve, raising …

Machine learning-enhanced immunopeptidomics applied to T-cell epitope discovery for COVID-19 vaccines

KA Kovalchik, DJ Hamelin, P Kubiniok… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Next-generation T-cell-directed vaccines for COVID-19 focus on establishing lasting T-cell
immunity against current and emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Precise identification of …

Heterologous immunity induced by 1st generation COVID-19 vaccines and its role in developing a pan-coronavirus vaccine

RS Patel, B Agrawal - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative infectious agent of
the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to multiple (4-6) waves of infections worldwide during the …

SARS-CoV-2: an update on the biological interplay with the human host

G Lippi, F Sanchis-Gomar, C Mattiuzzi, BM Henry - COVID, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious respiratory illness caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease, first identified in the …

Rescuing low frequency variants within intra-host viral populations directly from Oxford Nanopore sequencing data

Y Liu, J Kearney, M Mahmoud, B Kille… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Infectious disease monitoring on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) platforms offers
rapid turnaround times and low cost. Tracking low frequency intra-host variants provides …

SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity of human hosts and its implications for viral immune evasion

B Xi, X Zeng, Z Chen, J Zeng, L Huang, H Du - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is continuously evolving,
bringing great challenges to the control of the virus. In the present study, we investigated the …

Time-series sequences for evolutionary inferences

AA Snead, F Alda - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The application of genomics to evolutionary biology has provided unprecedented power and
resolution to in-vestigate processes like mutation ( Nachman and Crowell 2000; Rozhok and …