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Welcome to VirMet

VirMet is a software suite designed to help users running viral metagenomics (mNGS) experiments: unspecific massively parallel NGS sequencing with the aim of discovering and characterizing the virus fraction of biological samples.

To see and download the code, visit our GitHub.

VirMet is called with a command-subcommand syntax. All the possible subcommands are:

  • fetch: download genomes
  • update: update viral/bacterial database
  • index: index genomes
  • wolfpack: analyze a Miseq run
  • covplot: plot coverage for a specific organism

Some help can be obtained with virmet <subcommand> -h.

As an example, if you want to download the viral nucleotide database, you can use it as follows: virmet fetch --viral n.

Enjoy using VirMet!