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Authors
Neža Pajek Arambašič, Katarina Bačnik, Luka Kranjc, Denis Kutnjak, Tomaž Curk
Publication
International Advances in Plant Virology 2025, 2025
Abstract

Emerging viruses in the Tobamovirus genus, such as tobamo brown rugose fruit virus, pose threats to vegetable and ornamental crops due to their highly stable virions. We developed a scalable, reproducible Snakemake pipeline to analyze large-scale public datasets, enabling parallel processing and extraction of candidate contigs for further investigation. Our framework combines bioinformatics and machine learning methods to classify known and novel tobamoviral sequences, including short or partial contigs, and supports the creation of a curated catalogue of potential novel tobamoviral sequences for downstream genomic and epidemiological analyses.