While there are techniques to identify known viruses, such as high throughput sequencing or high
density microarrays, identifying truly novel virions could pose a problem, the authors write.
The Emory team used high
density microarrays to probe more than 900,000 sites across the human genome to detect structural variation, including deletions or duplications of DNA.
Not exact matches
The researchers also identified Zika - specific antigens — which can be used to detect the Zika specific antibodies needed for testing — using a high
density peptide
microarray they describe in JoVE.
Most of these compare gene expression data (
microarray or RNA - seq) to high -
density SNP array genotypes.