The ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has highlighted the need for rapid sequencing ability to help with source attribution and to aid epidemiological investigations (including environmental reservoirs).
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Pan-Ebola virus primer scheme:
The primer scheme used in the sequencing protocol generated using Primal Scheme. https://github.com/artic-network/primer-schemes/tree/master/ZaireEbola/V3
Ituri-specific Ebola virus primer scheme:
A primer scheme designed for the Ituri strain of Ebola virus in the sequencing protocol. https://github.com/artic-network/artic-ebov/tree/master/primer_schemes/IturiEBOV
Ebola virus Nanopore sequencing kit-list:
A costed tick-list of equipment, reagents and consumables for a portable Nanopore sequencing lab.
Ebola virus Nanopore sequencing protocol:
A complete step by step protocol that covers primers, amplicon preparation and clean-up, a single-tube protocol to barcode and adaptor ligate the library, and running minION.
Setting up the laptop computing environment using Conda:
This document describes setting up a laptop with the software and environment needed to undertake off-line Nanopore bioinformatics and phylogenetic analysis.
Ebola virus Nanopore bioinformatics protocol:
A complete bioinformatics protocol to take the output from the sequencing protocol to consensus genome sequences. Includes basecalling, de-multiplexing, mapping, polishing and consensus generation.
Phylogenetic analysis and visualization:
An analysis protocol for an initial phylogenetic analysis of consensus genomes. Includes alignment, phylogeny estimation and visualization.
RAMPART real-time visualization of nanopore sequencing:
A RAMPART protocol for the Pan Ebola virus primer scheme or the Ituri Ebola virus scheme.
Ebola virus validation results:
Describes validation experiments using this protocol on reference strains of EBOV. MinION 'bulk files' are available to replay the sequencing run.
An alignment of 35 complete or nearly-complete genomes spaning 1976-2014.
This the reference genome alignment used to create the pan-Ebola virus primer scheme and are also used in the phylogenetic protocol.
reference_genomes/ebov-reference-genomes-35.fasta-- 35 EBOV genome alignment - FASTA file.
reference_genomes/ebov-reference-genomes-35.phyml.tree-- Maximum likelihood phylogeny - tree file.
reference_genomes/ebov-reference-genomes-35.phyml.tree.png-- Maximum likelihood phylogeny - PNG image.
