Zika genomics urgently need standardized and curated reference sequences

1 KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium, 2 Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 3 KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Leuven, Belgium, 4 Molecular Biology and Immunology Department, Fundación Instituto de Immunologı́a de Colombia (FIDIC), Basic Sciences Department, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, 5 Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, IHMT, University Nova de Lisboa, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal

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