Virology Toolbox

Methods used for the study of viruses

Viral growth

Multiplicity of Infection
Influenza virus growth in eggs

Viral detection
Influenza hemagglutination inhibition assay
Influenza microneutralization assay
Detecting viruses: the plaque assay
Measurement of viruses by end-point dilution assay
The western blot
Detection of antigens or antibodies by ELISA
Detecting viral proteins in infected cells or tissue by immunostaining

Viral Bioinformatics
Introduction + Homology
Dotplot
Recombination
Introduction to multiple sequence alignment
Viral bioinformatics: Multiple sequence alignment – Jalview
Viral bioinformatics: Multiple sequence alignment – Base-By-Base (BBB) editor
Viral bioinformatics: Sequence searcher