Virus Pathogen Database for EsViritu

Databases for EsViritu: Read mapping pipeline for detection and measurement of virus pathogens from metagenomic data

File descriptions

v3.2.2/

virus_pathogen_database.all_metadata.tsv = sequence and taxonomy info for each sequence in database

virus_pathogen_database.fna = fasta formatted nucleotide database of all virus genomes and segments

virus_pathogen_database.mmi = minimap2 formatted index of database (for short read mapping)

Relates to the tool in the following repository:

EsViritu

Updates since 3.1.1:

addition of over 1,000 assemblies of human/animal/plant viruses that were previously not included for various reasons

removal of some endogenous virus genomes to avoid mislabeling human/animal DNA

Masking of a few virus genomes with low-complexity repeat regions