<p>Viruses are found across all ecosystems and infect every type of organism on Earth. Traditional culture-based methods have proven insufficient to explore this viral diversity at scale, driving the development of viromics, the sequence-based analysis of uncultivated viruses. Viromics approaches have been particularly useful for studying viruses of microorganisms, which can act as crucial regulators of microbiomes across ecosystems. They have already revealed the broad geographic distribution of viral communities and are progressively uncovering the expansive genetic and functional diversity of the global virome. Moving forward, large-scale viral ecogenomics studies combined with new experimental and computational approaches to identify virus activity and host interactions will enable a more complete characterization of global viral diversity and its effects.</p>

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Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes

  • Simon Roux,
  • Clement Coclet

摘要

Viruses are found across all ecosystems and infect every type of organism on Earth. Traditional culture-based methods have proven insufficient to explore this viral diversity at scale, driving the development of viromics, the sequence-based analysis of uncultivated viruses. Viromics approaches have been particularly useful for studying viruses of microorganisms, which can act as crucial regulators of microbiomes across ecosystems. They have already revealed the broad geographic distribution of viral communities and are progressively uncovering the expansive genetic and functional diversity of the global virome. Moving forward, large-scale viral ecogenomics studies combined with new experimental and computational approaches to identify virus activity and host interactions will enable a more complete characterization of global viral diversity and its effects.