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HDVdb: A Comprehensive Hepatitis D Virus Database.

Zainab Usman, Stoyan Velkov, Ulrike Protzer, Michael Roggendorf, Dmitrij Frishman, Hadi Karimzadeh

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Article in Viruses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zainab UsmanDepartment of Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354 Freising, Germany.
Stoyan VelkovInstitute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2390-7097
Ulrike ProtzerInstitute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany.
Michael RoggendorfInstitute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany.
Dmitrij FrishmanDepartment of Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354 Freising, Germany.
Hadi KarimzadehInstitute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2264-4395
Technical University of Munich · DEWeihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences · DELMU Klinikum · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis D virus (HDV) causes the most severe form of viral hepatitis, which may rapidly progress to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It has been estimated that 15-20 million people worldwide are suffering from the chronic HDV infection. Currently, no effective therapies are available to treat acute or chronic HDV infection. The remarkable sequence variability of the HDV genome, particularly within the hypervariable region has resulted in the provisional classification of eight major genotypes and various subtypes. We have developed a specialized database, HDVdb (http://hdvdb.bio.wzw.tum.de/), which contains a collection of partial and complete HDV genomic sequences obtained from the GenBank and from our own patient cohort. HDVdb enables the researchers to investigate the genetic variability of all available HDV sequences, correlation of genotypes to epidemiology and pathogenesis. Additionally, it will contribute in understanding the drug resistant mutations and develop effective vaccines against HDV infection. The database can be accessed through a web interface that allows for static and dynamic queries and offers integrated generic and specialized sequence analysis tools, such as annotation, genotyping, primer prediction, and phylogenetic analyses.

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Databases, GeneticGenome, ViralHepatitis DHepatitis Delta VirusHumansInternetPhylogenydatabasegenotypinghepatitis delta virusWebserver

Identifiers

PMID32422927
PMCPMC7290977
OpenAlexW3024209462

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