Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery
R. C. Edgar, Brie Taylor, Victor Lin, Tomer Altman, Pierre Barbera, Dmitry Meleshko, Dan Lohr, Gherman Novakovsky, Benjamin Buchfink, Basem Al-Shayeb, Jillian F. Banfield, Marcos de la Peña, Anton Korobeynikov, Rayan Chikhi, Artem Babaian
The paper develops a cloud computing infrastructure for petabase-scale sequence alignment, identifying over 105 novel RNA viruses and expanding known species by an order of magnitude.
Nature · Jan 26, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics