VAPiD: a lightweight cross-platform viral annotation pipeline and identification tool to facilitate virus genome submissions to NCBI GenBank.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With sequencing technologies becoming cheaper and easier to use, more groups are able to obtain whole genome sequences of viruses of public health and scientific importance. Submission of genomic data to NCBI GenBank is a requirement prior to publication and plays a critical role in making scientific data publicly available. GenBank currently has automatic prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome annotation pipelines but has no viral annotation pipeline beyond influenza virus. Annotation and submission of viral genome sequence is a non-trivial task, especially for groups that do not routinely interact with GenBank for data submissions.

Results

We present Viral Annotation Pipeline and iDentification (VAPiD), a portable and lightweight command-line tool for annotation and

SUBMITTER: Shean RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343335 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature