VirPipe: an easy-to-use and customizable pipeline for detecting viral genomes from Nanopore sequencing

Kijin Kim, Kyungmin Park, Seonghyeon Lee, Seung-Hwan Baek, Tae-Hun Lim, Jongwoo Kim, Balachandran Manavalan, Jin-Won Song, Won-Keun Kim

Abstract: Detection and analysis of viral genomes with Nanopore sequencing has shown great promise in the surveillance of pathogen outbreaks. However, the number of virus detection pipelines supporting Nanopore sequencing is very limited. Here, we present VirPipe, a new pipeline for the detection of viral genomes from Nanopore or Illumina sequencing input featuring streamlined installation and customization.