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Hepatitis C Virus
Data on hepatitis C virus published by C. Kuiken and colleagues
April 23rd, 2008
"The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a significant public health threat worldwide. The virus is highly variable and evolves rapidly, making it an elusive target for the immune system and for vaccine and drug design," scientists writing in the journal Nucleic Acids Research report. "Presently, similar to 50 000 HCV sequences have been published. A central website that provides annotated sequences and analysis tools will be helpful to HCV scientists worldwide. The HCV sequence database collects and annotates sequence data, and provides them to the public via a website that contains a user-friendly search interface and a large number of sequence analysis tools, following...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-04-23)
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