Metaviromics

Trainer: Juan Sebastian Andrade Martinez

Overview: This session will provide a brief introduction to metagenomics and its role in the discovery of new viruses and their role in the environment. This will be followed by a discussion on viral contig classification via VIRify, and then a brief workshop of said tool.

Learning objectives:

• Understand viromics’ contribution to viral discovery.
• Learn the challenges of viral classification.
• Learn about the VIRify analysis pipeline.

Materials

• Presentation slides
• Tutorial directions

Further learning

• VIRify biorxiv