Abstract
AbstractViruses change constantly during replication, leading to high intra-species diversity. Although many changes are neutral or deleterious, some can confer on the virus different biological properties such as better adaptability. In addition, viral genotypes often have associated metadata, such as host residence, which can help with inferring viral transmission during pandemics. Thus, subspecies analysis can provide important insights into virus characterization. Here, we present VirStrain, a tool taking short reads as input with viral strain composition as output. We rigorously test VirStrain on multiple simulated and real virus sequencing datasets. VirStrain outperforms the state-of-the-art tools in both sensitivity and accuracy.
Funder
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee
Innovation and Technology Fund
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Cited by
7 articles.
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