Fig. 1

The VZV transcriptome. The transcriptome of the varicella zoster virus was analyzed using long-read cDNA sequencing. The reads were annotated using our custom script (https://github.com/zsolt-balazs/LoRTIA). Transcriptional start sites and transcriptional end sites of the annotated transcripts are the 5′ and 3′-ends with significantly higher abundance than any other read end in their ±50 vicinity, according to Poisson-probability, and those that are not a result of strand switching or false priming