Abstract
ViromeScan is an innovative metagenomic analysis tool that allows characterizing the taxonomy of viral communities from raw data of metagenomics sequencing, efficiently denoising samples from reads of other microorganisms. This means that users can use the same shotgun metagenomic sequencing data to fully characterize complex microbial ecosystems, including bacteria and viruses. Here we describe the analysis procedure with some examples, illustrating the processes computed by ViromeScan from raw data to the final output.
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Rampelli, S., Turroni, S., Candela, M. (2024). From Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing to Viral Community Profiling: The ViromeScan Tool. In: Pantaleo, V., Miozzi, L. (eds) Viral Metagenomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2732. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3515-5_2
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