Chapter 1 ? Comparative Genomics of Viruses

Thomas Rattei

Chapter 2 ? Current Techniques and Approaches for Metagenomic Exploration of Phage Diversity

Simon Roux and Mark Borodovsky

Chapter 3 ? Direct RNA Sequencing for Complete Viral Genomes

Sebastian Krautwurst, Ronald Dijkman, Volker Thiel,

Andi Krumbholz, and Manja Marz

Chapter 4 ? Computational Methods for Viral Quasispecies Assembly

Kim Philipp Jablonski and Niko Beerenwinkel

Chapter 5 ? Functional RNA Structures in the 3′ UTR of Mosquito-Borne Flaviviruses

Michael T. Wolfinger, Roman Ochsenreiter, and

Ivo L. Hofacker

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Chapter 6 ? Structural Bioinformatics of Influenza Virus RNA Genomes

Alexander P. Gultyaev, Rene C.L. Olsthoorn,

Monique I. Spronken, and Mathilde Richard

Chapter 7

? Structural Genomics and Interactomics of SARS-COV2: Decoding Basic Building Blocks of the Coronavirus

Ziyang Gao, Senbao Lu, Oleksandr Narykov, Suhas

Srinivasan, and Dmitry Korkin

Chapter 8 ? Computational Tools for Discovery of CD8 T cell Epitopes and CTL Immune Escape in Viruses Causing Persistent Infections

Hadi Karimzadeh, Daniel Habermann, Daniel Hoffmann,

and Michael Roggendorf

Chapter 9 ? Virus-Host Transcriptomics

Caroline C. Friedel

Chapter 10 ? Sequence Classification with Machine Learning at the Example of Viral Host Prediction

Florian Mock and Manja Marz

Chapter 11 ? Master Regulators of Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 as Promising Targets for Drug Repurposing

Manasa KP , Kamilya Altynbekova, and Alexander Kel

Chapter 12 ? The Potential of Computational Genomics in the Design of Oncolytic Viruses

Henni Zommer and Tamir Tuller

Chapter 13 ? Sharing Knowledge in Virology

Edouard De Castro, Chantal Hulo, Patrick Masson, and

Philippe Le Mercier