To thoroughly examine the EBV transcription in these EBV-positive datasets, the complete sequencing file for each EBV-positive tumor (~60–118 million reads) was aligned directly to the human reference genome (GRCH38/hg38) plus a modified Akata strain of the EBV genome that was split between the BBLF2/3 and the BGLF3.5 to accommodate coverage of splice junctions for the LMP-2 viral gene using the STAR aligner. Here, PSMB9 is linked to neoplasm.