This repo includes data tangentially associated with the recent paper in microPublicationBiology: doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000590

The fasta file shows the alignment of thirteen different cytomegalovirus strains. The UGene Pro software is a good visualization tool for the data. Software can be downloaded externally here: http://ugene.net The uprj file provided also shows the predicted phylogenetic tree of the viruses. I used this genome alignment to identify potentially conserved regions in the CMV genome that could be targeted with a CRISPR-Cas9 therapy.