Endogenous viral elements: insights into data availability and accessibility
Muriel Ritsch, Nadja Brait, Erin Harvey, Manja Marz, Sebastian Lequime · 2024
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Description
Muriel Ritsch and four co-authors examine data problems in the study of viral remnants inside host genomes, in a paper from 2024. These remnants, left by ancient infections, can affect health and reveal deep viral history. Yet they are often missed in genome studies, and reports about them are scattered across fields and databases under shifting terms.
The authors sort the barriers: uneven focus across remnant types, complex biology, and poor data gathering. They propose a user-friendly finding tool and targeted fixes to shared databases, plus common guidelines for reporting. A dedicated open database is the ideal, they note, but shared fixes may come faster.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Muriel Ritsch, Nadja Brait, Erin Harvey, Manja Marz, Sebastian Lequime |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |