VirFind
VirFind is an online virus discovery tool running on computer nodes housed at Arkansas High Performance Computing Center. It can:
- Accept different input file formats including fasta and fastq.
- Map the reads to reference genomes.
- Perform de novo assembly to get longer contigs.
- Filter out non-virus sequences that can create noise in the sequencing data.
- Detect known viruses.
- Discover new viruses.
- Perform conserved domain search.
- And give you sequences that are not yet determined if viral or not viral.
The tool is a set of different modules, each with a specific job, and future modules can be added for additional capabilities.
Please create a new account, and log in for guidelines of how to use VirFind for discovering viruses in your next generation sequencing data.
Principal investigator: Ioannis E. Tzanetakis.
Creator: Thien Ho (Scholar, LinkedIn).