VirCapSeq
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VirCapSeq is a system to broadly screen for all viral infections in vertebrates including humans.[1] It was designed by W. Ian Lipkin, Thomas Briese, and Amit Kapoor at Columbia University.[2]
The researchers created a library of 2 million 50 to 100-mer oligonucleotides based on viral genome sequences described in the European Molecular Biology Laboratory database that represented the coding sequences of all known vertebrate viruses.[3] They then developed an assay whereby addition of these probes to samples allowed recovery of complete viral genomic sequences, This assay is "VirCapSeq".[3]