nf-core/vipr is a bioinformatics best-practice analysis pipeline for assembly and intrahost / low-frequency variant calling for viral samples.
The pipeline is built using Nextflow, a workflow tool to run tasks across multiple compute infrastructures in a very portable manner. It comes with docker / singularity containers making installation trivial and results highly reproducible.
Step | Main program/s |
---|---|
Trimming, combining of read-pairs per sample and QC | Skewer, FastQC |
Decontamination | decont |
Metagenomics classification / Sample purity | Kraken |
Assembly to contigs | BBtools' Tadpole |
Assembly polishing | ViPR Tools |
Mapping to assembly | BWA, LoFreq |
Low frequency variant calling | LoFreq |
Coverage and variant AF plots | Bedtools, ViPR Tools |
Documentation about the pipeline can be found in the docs/
directory:
This pipeline was originally developed at the Genome Institute of Singapore by Andreas Wilm. It started out as an ecosystem around LoFreq and went through a couple of iterations. The current version had three predecessors ViPR 1, ViPR 2 and ViPR 3.
An incomplete list of publications using (previous versions of) ViPR:
Plenty of people provided essential feedback, including:
- October SESSIONS
- Paola Florez DE SESSIONS
- ZHU Yuan
- Shuzhen SIM
- CHU Wenhan Collins