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

First applications of the Giant Virus Finder is Giant Virus Toplist, the list of the largest virus genome.

Other application is that giant viruses have found in the metagenomes collected from the Great Rann of Kutch. [1]

References

  1. Kerepesi, Csaba; Grolmusz, Vince (2015). "Giant Viruses of the Kutch Desert". Archives of Virology. First online. doi:10.1007/s00705-015-2720-8. PMID 26666442.
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