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However, patients can be infected by more than one variant of the same virus species or strain, for example by multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2. This leads to the more complicated problem of virus variant quantification from samples containing virus mixtures.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We report on improvements of Orthanq, our generic tool for haplotype quantification, and show how it can be applied to perform uncertainty aware quantification of virus variants. We evaluate this ability on simulated and real SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1 virus mixture datasets and show that Orthanq outperforms other state of the art approaches.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Orthanq performs identification and uncertainty-aware quantification of known virus variants of any virus species, in particular also in samples with mixed infections. 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