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‘Sacrifice’ of virus data clears the path to open a disease discovery pipeline - EurekAlert


Tens of millions of still-unknown or misunderstood viruses can cause diseases – including new pandemics – and affect the health of valuable terrestrial and marine environments. Now a new pipeline to investigate the ‘virosphere,’ or all the genomes of viruses and bacteriophages (viruses that attack bacteria) of the world, has been developed by an international collaboration led by Flinders University.

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