VirusFinder

Description

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VirusFinder 2 is a new software tool for characterizing intra-host viruses through next generation sequencing (NGS) data. It implements our recently developed algorithm, Virus intEgration site detection through Reference SEquence customization (VERSE) (manuscript in consideration) as well as other new features. Specifically, it detects virus infection, co-infection with multiple viruses, mutations in the virus genomes, in addition to virus integration sites in host genomes. It also facilitates virus discovery by reporting novel contigs, long sequences assembled from short reads that map neither to the host genome nor to the genomes of known viruses. VirusFinder 2 can not only work for the human genome data, but also other organisms with available reference genome sequences (e.g. animals). VirusFinder 2 works with both paired-end and single-end data, unlike the previous 1.x versions that accepted only paired-end reads. The types of NGS data that VirusFinder 2 can deal with include whole genome sequencing (WGS), whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq), targeted sequencing data such as whole exome sequencing (WES) and ultra-deep amplicon sequencing.

Environment Modules

Run module spider virusfinder to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

System Variables

• HPC_VIRUSFINDER_DIR - installation directory
• HPC_VIRUSFINDER_BIN - executable directory
• HPC_VIRUSFINDER_CONF - config directory