Taxonomic classification of viruses from genomic sequences using k-mer enrichment.
VirusTaxo is a dedicated virus classifier that reaches ~93% accuracy at the genus level across 682 viral genera. It outperformed existing tools in metagenomic benchmarks and correctly identified the taxonomy of the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 even when it was excluded from the training database.
VirusTaxo is released as an open-source framework accessible to the community.
VirusTaxo is a dedicated virus classifier with 93% accuracy at the genus level across 682 viral genera. It outperformed existing tools in metagenomic benchmarks, accurately identified the taxonomy of the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 even when excluded from the database, and is released as an open-source framework accessible to the community.
@article{virustaxo2022,title={VirusTaxo: Taxonomic classification of viruses from the genome sequence using k-mer enrichment},author={Raju, Rajan Saha and Nahid, Abdullah Al and Dev, Preonath Chondrow and Islam, Rashedul},journal={Genomics},year={2022},month=jun,}