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VirFinder: a novel k-mer based tool for identifying viral sequences from assembled metagenomic data

BACKGROUND: Identifying viral sequences in mixed metagenomes containing both viral and host contigs is a critical first step in analyzing the viral component of samples. Current tools for distinguishing prokaryotic virus and host contigs primarily use gene-based similarity approaches. Such approache...

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Autores principales: Ren, Jie, Ahlgren, Nathan A., Lu, Yang Young, Fuhrman, Jed A., Sun, Fengzhu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28683828
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0283-5