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I want to know the difference between human sequence and virus sequence.Is there anyone can help me？
Thanks a lot!
I want to know the difference between human sequence and virus sequence.Is there anyone can help me？
Thanks a lot!
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The human sequence is much longer. -
sorry... I only have short length sequences come from Illumina Hiseq.Originally posted by adaptivegenome View PostComment
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Which virus?
To expand on adaptivegenome's comment, viral genomes tend to be thousands of bases whereas the human genome is billions of bases. However "human" denotes a single species, whereas "virus" could mean any of millions of different organisms. Past that it is difficult to give an answer to such a general question.
If you have some human DNA or RNA that includes viral genomes or transcripts, you could try mapping the Illumina data to the human genome then assembling the non-mapping reads. You could then check the source of the resulting contigs by blasting them against genbank, or some curated database. If you have viral sequence in there it will probably hit other viruses.
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