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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

by Vincent Racaniello

Earth's virology Professor Questions? virology@virology.ws  

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Gertrud U. Rey

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Table of Contents
ME/CFS
Inside a BSL-4
The Wall of Polio
Microbe Art
Interviews With Virologists

Earth’s virology course

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Virologia en Español
Virology 101
Influenza 101

Podcasts

Immune
This Week in Virology
This Week in Microbiology
This Week in Parasitism
Urban Agriculture
This Week in Evolution
Virus Watch
All at MicrobeTV

Useful resources

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HealthMap
mSphere
Polio eradication
Promed-Mail
Small Things Considered
ViralZone
Virus Particle Explorer
The Living River
Parasites Without Borders

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