VirAmp: a galaxy-based viral genome assembly pipeline

GigaScience

Moriah L Szpara¹  Istvan Albert¹  Daniel W Renner¹  Yinan Wan² 

[1] Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, PA, USA;The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, University Park 16802, PA, USA

关键词: variation analysis;    assembly pipeline;    viral genome;    herpes simplex virus;    Next generation sequencing;   

Others  :  1204335
DOI  :  10.1186/s13742-015-0060-y

 received in 2014-07-14, accepted in 2015-04-09,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Advances in next generation sequencing make it possible to obtain high-coverage sequence data for large numbers of viral strains in a short time. However, since most bioinformatics tools are developed for command line use, the selection and accessibility of computational tools for genome assembly and variation analysis limits the ability of individual labs to perform further bioinformatics analysis.

Findings

We have developed a multi-step viral genome assembly pipeline named VirAmp, which combines existing tools and techniques and presents them to end users via a web-enabled Galaxy interface. Our pipeline allows users to assemble, analyze, and interpret high coverage viral sequencing data with an ease and efficiency that was not possible previously. Our software makes a large number of genome assembly and related tools available to life scientists and automates the currently recommended best practices into a single, easy to use interface. We tested our pipeline with three different datasets from human herpes simplex virus (HSV).

Conclusions

VirAmp provides a user-friendly interface and a complete pipeline for viral genome analysis. We make our software available via an Amazon Elastic Cloud disk image that can be easily launched by anyone with an Amazon web service account. A fully functional demonstration instance of our system can be found at http://viramp.com/ webcite. We also maintain detailed documentation on each tool and methodology at http://docs.viramp.com webcite.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Wan et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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