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VirSorter2
kb_virsorter2

v.1.0.1

By: bbolduc

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Identifies viral sequences from viral and microbial metagenomes

VirSorter2 is a DNA and RNA virus identification tool that leverages genome-informed database advances across a collection of customized automatic classifiers to improve the accuracy and range of virus sequence detection. When benchmarked against genomes from both isolated and uncultivated viruses, VirSorter2 uniquely performed consistently with high accuracy (F1-score > 0.8) across viral diversity, while all other tools under-detected viruses outside of the group most represented in reference databases (i.e., those in the order Caudovirales). Among the tools evaluated, VirSorter2 was also uniquely able to minimize errors associated with atypical cellular sequences including eukaryotic genomes and plasmids. Finally, as the virosphere exploration unravels novel viral sequences, VirSorter2's modular design makes it inherently able to expand to new types of viruses via the design of new classifiers to maintain maximal sensitivity and specificity.A more thorough description of this tool (and the code it runs) is available at VirSorter2. Briefly, this App will consume viral genomes (in several KBase object formats) and generate predicted viral sequences (KBase.Assembly).

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App Specification:

https://github.com/bolduc/kb_virsorter2/tree/543b731be3ed2994afe76bcdc9b1b7604ddc909d/ui/narrative/methods/run_kb_virsorter2

Module Commit: 543b731be3ed2994afe76bcdc9b1b7604ddc909d