Reply to the Letter of Charre et al. “Mis-Genotyping of Some Hepatitis D Virus Genotype 2 and 5 Sequences Using HDVdb”

Viruses (Nov 2020)

Affiliations

Zainab Usman: Department of Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354 Freising, Germany
Stoyan Velkov: Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany
Ulrike Protzer: Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany
Michael Roggendorf: Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany
Dmitrij Frishman: Department of Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354 Freising, Germany
Hadi Karimzadeh: Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München, 81675 Munich, Germany

Abstract

We thank Charre and colleagues for spotting the mis-annotation of sequences in our database, which was caused by human error [...]