Teemu Smura

This study detects and characterizes coronaviruses in rodents and bats from four European countries, identifying new viral lineages and highlighting potential zoonotic risks.

LazypipeX improves virus discovery in mNGS data by offering customizable and efficient annotation strategies that reduce execution time while maintaining accuracy.

The paper investigates TBEV circulation and vertical transmission in bank voles in Poland, finding co-circulating viral lineages and evidence of vertical transmission.

This study identifies zoonotic viruses in Kenyan rodents and shrews, including rat hepatitis E virus and novel paramyxoviruses, highlighting the need for genomic surveillance.

The paper reprocesses SARS-CoV-2 genomic data to correct systematic errors in phylogenies using a novel assembly tool, resulting in a cleaner global tree of 4.47 million samples.

This study shows JAK inhibitors like baricitinib suppress IFN-stimulated genes, aiding viral propagation by reducing antiviral defenses.

This paper introduces Lazypipe2, an improved metagenomic pipeline for virus detection, showing enhanced performance in identifying eukaryotic viruses and handling divergent sequences.

ClusTRace is a bioinformatic pipeline for analyzing clusters in SARS-CoV-2 phylogenies to detect super-spreading events and novel mutations.

The paper analyzes SARS-CoV-2 genomic data from Iraq during 2020-2021, identifying a high prevalence of the B.1.1.7 lineage with a stop codon mutation in ORF7a.

HaVoC is a bioinformatic pipeline that assembles SARS-CoV-2 sequences and identifies lineages to detect variants of concern.

The paper introduces a novel NGS pipeline called LAZYPIPE for virus discovery across diverse hosts and samples, demonstrating its ability to identify both known and novel viruses.