Pyviko: an automated Python tool to design gene knockouts in complex viruses with overlapping genes
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- 作者：Louis J. Taylor ; Klaus Strebel
- 关键词：Virus ; Knockout virus ; Mutation ; Overprinting ; Bioinformatics ; Cloning ; Viral mutant ; Knockout ; Pyviko
- 刊名：BMC Microbiology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1405KB
- 刊物主题：Microbiology; Biological Microscopy; Mycology; Parasitology; Virology; Life Sciences, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2180
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundGene knockouts are a common tool used to study gene function in various organisms. However, designing gene knockouts is complicated in viruses, which frequently contain sequences that code for multiple overlapping genes. Designing mutants that can be traced by the creation of new or elimination of existing restriction sites further compounds the difficulty in experimental design of knockouts of overlapping genes. While software is available to rapidly identify restriction sites in a given nucleotide sequence, no existing software addresses experimental design of mutations involving multiple overlapping amino acid sequences in generating gene knockouts.