Giant Virus Finder

Giant Virus Finder
Developer(s) Csaba Kerepesi
Written in Perl, Python
Operating system Linux
Available in English
Type Bioinformatics
License GNU General Public Licence
Website http://pitgroup.org/giant-virus-finder

The Giant Virus Finder is a free bioinformatics software for finding giant viruses in metagenomes.

Applications

The Giant Virus Finder tool integrates and applies the Giant Virus Toplist, the list of the largest virus genomes. With the tool, giant viruses were found in diverse habitats, like the Great Rann of Kutch [1] or the Mojave Desert, the Prairie, or the Antarctic dry valleys .[2]

References

  1. Kerepesi, Csaba; Grolmusz, Vince (2016). "Giant Viruses of the Kutch Desert". Archives of Virology. 161 (3): 721–724. arXiv:1410.1278. doi:10.1007/s00705-015-2720-8. PMID 26666442.
  2. Kerepesi, Csaba; Grolmusz, Vince (2017). "The "Giant Virus Finder" Discovers an Abundance of Giant Viruses in the Antarctic Dry Valleys". Archives of Virology. 162 (6): 1671. arXiv:1503.05575. doi:10.1007/s00705-017-3286-4. PMID 28247094.
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