Zika genomics urgently need standardized and curated reference sequences

• Kristof Theys ,

  * E-mail: kristof.theys@kuleuven.be

  Affiliation KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0242-7000

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• Pieter Libin,

  Affiliations KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3906-758X

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• Kai Dallmeier,

  Affiliation KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8117-9166

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• Andrea-Clemencia Pineda-Peña,

  Affiliations Molecular Biology and Immunology Department, Fundación Instituto de Immunología de Colombia (FIDIC), Basic Sciences Department, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, IHMT, University Nova de Lisboa, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1937-0506

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• Anne-Mieke Vandamme,

  Affiliations KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium, Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, IHMT, University Nova de Lisboa, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6594-2766

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• Lize Cuypers,

  Affiliation KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9433-8752

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• Ana B. Abecasis

  Affiliations KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium, Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, IHMT, University Nova de Lisboa, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal

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