VIRUS BIOINFORMATICS

u003cpu003eViruses are the most numerous and deadliest biological entities on the planet, infecting all types of living organisms-from bacteria to human beings. The constantly expanding repertoire of experimental approaches available to study viruses includes both low-throughput techniques, such as imaging and 3D structure determination, and modern OMICS technologies, such as genome sequencing, ribosomal profiling, and RNA structure probing. Bioinformatics of viruses faces significant challenges due to their seemingly unlimited diversity, unusual lifestyle, great variety of replication strategies, compact genome organization, and rapid rate of evolution. At the same time, it also has the potential to deliver decisive clues for developing vaccines and medications against dangerous viral outbreaks, such as the recent coronavirus pandemics.u003cbu003eu003ciu003e u003c/bu003eVirus Bioinformaticsu003c/iu003e reviews state-of-the-art bioinformatics algorithms and recent advances in data analysis in virology. u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eFEATURESu003c/pu003e u003culu003e u003cpu003e u003cliu003eContributions from leading international experts in the fieldu003c/liu003e u003cpu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003cliu003eDiscusses open questions and urgent needsu003c/liu003e u003cpu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003cliu003eCovers a broad spectrum of topics, including evolution, structure, and function of viruses, including coronavirusesu003c/liu003e u003cpu003eu003c/pu003eu003c/ulu003e u003cpu003eThe book will be of great interest to computational biologists wishing to venture into the rapidly advancing field of virus bioinformatics as well as to virologists interested in acquiring basic bioinformatics skills to support their wet lab work.u003c/pu003e