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In research published in the journal Virus Evolution, scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Zoology have revealed that Next-Generation Sequencing and its associated online DNA databases could be used in the field of viral discovery.

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They have developed algorithms that detect DNA from viruses that happen to be in the blood or tissue sample of the species studied.

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