Maximal viral information recovery from sequence data using VirMAP

Viral taxonomic characterization from metagenomic data suffers from high background noise and signal crosstalk. Here, the authors develop VirMAP, a novel pipeline for analyses of metagenomic data that classifies viral reconstructions independent of genome coverage or read overlap.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nadim J Ajami, Matthew C. Wong, Matthew C. Ross, Richard E. Lloyd, Joseph F. Petrosino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05658-8