Jean‐Michel Claverie

The paper reports the isolation and genome sequencing of Pithoviridae, revealing genome organization, evolution, and the role of repeats in divergence from cedratviruses.

The paper validates predicted proteins using Fisher's exact test on CODEML results, showing that strong negative selection does not always confirm protein existence.

The paper investigates DNA methylation in giant viruses, finding widespread methylation, bacterial-origin MTases, and potential roles in virus-virus interactions.

ACDtool extends the Audic-Claverie test to compare large count datasets across multiple omics fields, offering three analysis types and a web interface.