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African swine fever virus biotype identification tool
Mark Dinhobl1,2, Edward Spinard1,2, Hillary Birtlery3
1Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.
Abstract:
African swine fever virus biotyping is a recently described classification technique that is based on an isolate's encoded proteome. In short, proteomes are compared and grouped based on unsupervised machine learning. This tool analyzes African swine fever virus (ASFV) genomes and will report their closest matches along with their ASFV biotypes. Here, we describe a standalone implementation that can be freely downloaded and used.

