Synbodies specific for Norovirus and coupled with a substrate provide Norovirus binding and detection platforms (FIG. 1). A Norovirus capturing platform, comprising one or more synbodies selected from the group consisting of synbodies 6-6, 92-92, 93-93, and 94-94 coupled to a substrate, has been found to found to bind with either GII.4 Minerva or both GII.4 Minerva and GII.4 Sydney# strains of norovirus.