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From: Studying the gut virome in the metagenomic era: challenges and perspectives

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Viruses can be classified based on various characteristics. These terms are used continuously throughout this manuscript. While all characters are important in determining taxonomic relationships, sequence comparisons using both pairwise sequence similarity and phylogenetic relationships have become one of the primary sets of characters used to define and distinguish virus taxa [6]

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