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From Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing to Viral Community Profiling: The ViromeScan Tool

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Viral Metagenomics

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1746))

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ViromeScan is an innovative metagenomic analysis tool that allows the viral community characterization in terms of taxonomy from raw data of metagenomics sequencing. It efficiently denoises samples from reads of other microorganisms. Users can adopt the same shotgun metagenomic sequencing data to fully characterize complex microbial ecosystems, including bacteria and viruses. Here we apply ViromeScan pipeline to some examples, thus illustrating the processes computed from raw data to the final output.

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Rampelli, S., Turroni, S. (2018). From Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing to Viral Community Profiling: The ViromeScan Tool. In: Pantaleo, V., Chiumenti, M. (eds) Viral Metagenomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1746. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7683-6_14

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