The dataset includes 864 genomic sequences obtained from COVID-19 patients aged 18 years old and above within the NYU Langone Health system between March 12 and May 10, 2020. Patients reflected the health system's catchment area (i.e., the greater New York City metropolitan area). rRNA-depleted total RNA was sequenced, underwent quality control, and analyzed to produce phylogenetic trees. Further...

To construct a fixed time-scaled phylogenetic tree, the investigators combined 828 viral genome sequences obtained from COVID-19 patients at NYU Langone Health between March and May 2020 with 1,899 background sequences that were contributed to the Nextstrain repository. A total of 2,727 SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences are available in the dataset. The supporting R code included with the dataset will produce...

A Delta-Omicron recombinant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was sequenced and isolated from an immunosuppressed and unvaccinated male kidney transplant patient who received Sotrovimab for treatment of COVID-19. Further clinical details and medical history of the patient are described in the associated publication. Sotrovimab is a therapeutic monoclonal antibody (mAb) used to treat infections by the BA.1 Omicron...

This dataset contains a list of accession numbers of SARS-CoV-2 genomes obtained from 76 patients at NYU Langone Health who were fully vaccinated with the BNT162b2 (Pfizer/BioNTech), mRNA-1273 (Moderna), or JNJ-78436735 (Janssen) COVID-19 mRNA vaccines but had breakthrough infections between February 1 and April 30, 2021. 37 were male and 39 were female; the median age of patients was 48 years. There...

The data from this study displays the complexity of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) transcriptome architecture. VZV causes varicella and reactivates later in life to cause herpes zoster. The VZV genome is known to produce multitudes of overlapping transcripts and distinct open reading frames (ORFs) have been studied as well. However, the architecture of the VZV transcriptome remains unknown. This...

This dataset was collected to show that direct RNA sequencing using nanopore arrays is an alternative to conventional RNA sequencing approaches, which are complicated by high gene density, overlapping reading frames, and complex splicing patterns. In direct RNA sequencing, individual polyadenylated RNAs are sequenced directly. For this study, direct RNA sequencing was used to profile the herpes simplex...

Adenovirus is a nuclear replicating DNA virus that relies on the host cell machinery for productive infection. Processing and metabolism of cellular RNAs are regulated by METTL3, which catalyzes the addition of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) to messenger RNAs. Although m6A-modified adenoviral RNAs have been detected previously, the location and function of m6A within the infectious cycle is unknown. For...

Arboviruses are caused by a group of viruses spread to people (host) by the bite of infected insects (vector). It is within these hosts that arboviruses replicate and undergo genomic evolution. However, how arboviruses evolve, are transmitted, or cause disease in nature remain unclear. Therefore, this study established a Zika virus (ZIKV) vector-borne transmission system in immunocompromised mice to...

Investigators obtained high quality SARS-CoV-2 sequences from 132 vaccinated and 283 unvaccinated individuals who were seen at NYU Langone Health facilities between May 1, 2021 and August 3, 2021. Fully vaccinated individuals received either two doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer/BioNTech) or mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccines, or a single-dose of the COVID-19 Janssen vaccine. Breakthrough infections were defined...

Gene expression rapidly responds to physiological stress like virus infection in part via the control of mRNA translation. However, how translation of virus and host mRNAs are regulated during infection stress remains unknown. This study showed that protein synthesis in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected cells unexpectedly becomes progressively reliant upon eIF3d, which is a mRNA cap-binding protein...