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vcontact

Description

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vConTACT2 is a tool to perform guilt-by-contig-association automatic classification of viral contigs.

Environment Modules

Run module spider vcontact to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_VCONTACT_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_VCONTACT_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses vcvontact you have to cite it as follows:

If you find vConTACT2 useful, please cite our newly published article in Nature Biotech!:

Bin Jang, H., Bolduc, B., Zablocki, O., Kuhn, J. H., Roux, S., Adriaenssens, E. M., … Sullivan, M. B. (2019). Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks. Nature Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0100-8

The theory and original code this work was based on:

Bolduc, B., Jang, H. Bin, Doulcier, G., You, Z., Roux, S., & Sullivan, M. B. (2017). vConTACT: an iVirus tool to classify double-stranded DNA viruses that infect Archaea and Bacteria. PeerJ, 5, e3243. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3243

Categories

phylogenetics