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The manuscript of VFS has been accepted by Bioinformatics.

VFS

We find that sometimes, VFS.sys.check.pl may fails during downloading nt database from NCBI. It is not a problem of VFS, but instability of network. Please make sure all nt databases are downloaded and extracted successfully before proceeding.

Re-downloading the nt database is simple.

Just invoke"wget ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/nt.*.tar.gz" in your command line.

Where * denotes the failed parts.... read more

VirusSeq is a tool for (1) detection of presence of viral species in NGS data, and (2) find viral integration events. It was recently published in Nov 17th 2012 Bioinformatics Advance Access. VirusSeq uses discordant read pair information combined with clustering to locate regions of a chromosome that fused with a virus. ... read more