ATCC® VR-1383™ | Human herpesvirus 1

Overview

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Organism Summary
Catalog Number	ATCC® VR-1383™
Strain Alias	MP [mutant strain of herpes simplex virus type 1]
Isolation	ATCC VR-1383 was derived by passage of ATCC VR-735 in presence of Mycoplasma Removal Agent (ICN) to remove contaminating mycoplasma. Human tissue/FL cell culture mutant of type 1 strain selected on basis of its ability to cause cell fusion.
Biosafety Level	2

Assembly Summary
Date Published	November 21, 2025
Length	152,578 nt
Sequencing Technology	Illumina + Oxford Nanopore Hybrid Assembly
Number of Contigs	2 (0 Circularized)
Assembly Level	Complete
N50	107,993 nt
%GC	68.16%

Annotations Summary
Number of CDS	84

Input Reads Summary
Oxford Nanopore Read Count	31,881
Oxford Nanopore Median Q Score	33
Illumina Read Count	10,872,172
Illumina Mean Coverage Depth	1,243.475×
Illumina Median Q Score	34

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Sequencing Quality Control Metrics
Median Q score, all bases	34
Percent of median Q scores per cycle greater than 25	1%
Ambiguous content (% N bases)	0%

This virus was assembled and curated using Oatmeal v3.1. See our technical documentation for further details: https://docs.onecodex.com/en/articles/5357065-assembly-qc-and-annotation-pipeline-versions