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Frequently used bioinformatics tools for viral genome analysis !

IVA: accurate de novo assembly of RNA virus genomes.
Hunt M, Gall A, Ong SH, Brener J, Ferns B, Goulder P, Nastouli E, Keane JA, Kellam P, Otto TD.
Bioinformatics. 2015 Jul 15;31(14):2374-6. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv120. Epub 2015 Feb 28.

Adapter sequences:
Optimal enzymes for amplifying sequencing libraries.
Quail, M. a et al. Nat. Methods 9, 10-1 (2012).

GAGE:
GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms.
Salzberg, S. L. et al. Genome Res. 22, 557-67 (2012).

KMC:
Disk-based k-mer counting on a PC.
Deorowicz, S., Debudaj-Grabysz, A. & Grabowski, S. BMC Bioinformatics 14, 160 (2013).

Kraken:
Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments.
Wood, D. E. & Salzberg, S. L. Genome Biol. 15, R46 (2014).

MUMmer:
Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes.
Kurtz, S. et al. Genome Biol. 5, R12 (2004).

R:
R: A language and environment for statistical computing.
R Core Team (2013). R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL http://www.R-project.org/.

RATT:
RATT: Rapid Annotation Transfer Tool.
Otto, T. D., Dillon, G. P., Degrave, W. S. & Berriman, M. Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e57 (2011).

SAMtools:
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools.
Li, H. et al. Bioinformatics 25, 2078-9 (2009).

Trimmomatic:
Trimmomatic: A flexible trimmer for Illumina Sequence Data.
Bolger, A. M., Lohse, M. & Usadel, B. Bioinformatics 1-7 (2014).