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Welcome to AdenovirusWiki

AdenovirusWiki is a community resource, see below entry in the pink box. Adenoviruses were one of the first respiratory viruses to be isolated and formally studied, in the early 1950s, before influenza and before rhinoviruses. As a model organism, it has allowed many breakthroughs in the understanding of the molecular biology of eukaryotes, for example splicing. As a molecular biology tool, it has allowed many breakthroughs in the application of recombinant DNA technology to the study of life. As a relatively small genome-containing entity, adenoviruses are allowing the current application and demonstration of genomic and bioinformatics approaches to understanding organisms, groups of organisms, classifications and phylogeny, as well as serving as a model for building IT-based tools and systems for applications to more complex organisms and genomes. This site is a resource for the running and interactive annotation of the newly determined as well as the archived genome sequences of adenoviruses. Your assistance, therefore, is humbly requested to help develop this wiki-like site into a model for other similar sites and for the more complicated genomes and organisms.

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"Rotating adenovirus structure"

Graphics made possible through the generosity of Dr. Phoebe Stewart (Vanderbilt University). And with permission from the American Society for Microbiology.

Reference: Saban, S.D., et al., (2006). Visualization of alpha helices in a 6-angstrom resolution cryoelectron microscopy structure of adenovirus allows refinement of capsid protein assignments. J Virol. 80(24):12049-59.

AdenovirusWiki is a community resource designed after EcoliWiki, and is meant to enhance our knowledge of adenovirus genomes and proteomes through updated and centralized genome anotations. It aims to bring together, with the help of the research community, community-based pages about everything related to Adenoviruses. We need your contributions, assistance and support.

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