USING SEQUENCE DATA TO TRACE THE ORIGINS OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE OUTBREAKS

his project objectives are arranged into 4 themes that are outlined below:

[1] Monitoring and mapping the global distribution of FMDV strains,

[2] Exploit next-generation sequencing approaches to increase our capacity to process the large number of samples that might be received for analysis during a future FMD outbreak, [3] Development and application of phylodynamic tools to resolve the demography of FMDV

[4] Develop tools to predict antigenic phenotypes from FMDV capsid sequence data

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