Viral Metagenomics Approaches for High-Resolution Screening of Multiplexed Arthropod and Plant Viral Communities

Methods in Molecular Biology
Sarah FrançoisPhilippe Roumagnac

Abstract

Viral metagenomic approaches have become essential for culture-independent and sequence-independent viral detection and characterization. This chapter describes an accurate and efficient approach to (1) concentrate viral particles from arthropods and plants, (2) remove contaminating non-encapsidated nucleic acids, (3) extract and amplify both viral DNA and RNA, and (4) analyze high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data by bioinformatics. Using this approach, up to 96 arthropod or plant samples can be multiplexed in a single HTS library.

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