Dimitris Karapliafis

Dimitris Karapliafis

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RNA viruses are incredibly diverse, and conventional similarity-based methods often fail to capture this diversity in sequencing datasets. Recent studies rely on detecting the marker RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) using more sensitive approaches, such as profile Hidden Markov Models (pHMMs).

With RdRpCATCH, we compare all publicly available RdRp pHMM resources on curated datasets and bring them into one framework that: – Scans (meta)transcriptomic assemblies for RdRp signals – Flags putative RNA virus contigs – Provides provisional taxonomic annotation

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