Steven T. Pullan

The paper presents the first chromosome-scale genome assembly for Dermacentor reticulatus, revealing a repeat-rich genome and providing insights into its phylogenetic placement and functional genomics.

This study shows that library preparation methods significantly affect RNA virus detection in clinical metagenomics, with SISPA-based approaches outperforming others in most scenarios.

The paper provides Andes virus sequencing datasets and evaluates a tiling amplicon scheme for benchmarking and optimizing bioinformatic pipelines.

This study evaluates neutralising antibody responses in vaccinated humans and convalescent hamsters against SARS-CoV-2 variants up to JN.1 using an authentic virus neutralisation assay, finding increased resistance to JN.1 in vaccinated individuals and specific neutralisation patterns in hamsters.

The paper optimizes an rRT-PCR assay for Ecuadorian OROV lineage, identifying five additional cases in febrile patients.

The paper assesses cross-talk in multiplex Nanopore MinION sequencing and finds 0.056% of reads are misassigned due to chimeric reads.

This paper describes a method to sequence Zika and other virus genomes directly from clinical samples using multiplex PCR and portable sequencing technologies, achieving complete genomes in 1-2 days.