metavirus aims to combine the three major virus data repositories (VirusHost, ViralZone, ICTV, NCBI Taxonomy and NCBI Refseq) into a R package for facilitating the application of the viruses descriptions, variants sequences and taxonomy data into the statistical environment of R. It is also developing a public API to explore the data integration mechanisms with phylogenetic, metagenome or machine learning approach.
The metavirus package has the following dependencies:
R version 4.0.0 or later
BiostringUse the devtools package to install from GitHub.
library(devtools)
install_github("labinfo-lncc/metavirus", ref="main")
Fig 1. Summary of workflow tasks, main functions and its outputs.
The metavirus package is currently in press. To properly cite it, use the citation function.
citation("metavirus")# To cite package ‘metavirus’ in publications use:
# ANDRADE, A. A. S. (2022). metavirus: an public api and integrative tool to get viruses data into R system. R package version 1.0.
# A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
# @Manual{,
# title = {metavirus: an public api and integrative tool to get viruses data into R system},
# author = {Amanda Araújo Serrão de Andrade, Otavio Jose Bernardes Brustolini, Eduardo Wagner, Ana Tereza Ribeiro Vasconcelos},
# year = {2022},
# note = {R package version 1.0},
# }
# ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated from the package
# DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see ‘help("citation")’.Artistic License 2.0
If you have any queries or find a bug, please submit an issue on GitHub or email [email protected].