VirFind is an online virus discovery tool running on computer nodes housed at Arkansas High Performance Computing Center
VirFind is an online virus discovery tool running on computer nodes housed at Arkansas High Performance Computing Center

Welcome to VirFind!

VirFind is an online bioinformatics tool designed to detect and discover viruses. The tool is comprised of different modules, each with a specific job.

Create a new account and log in to start discovering viruses in your high throughput sequencing data.

 

VirFind Specifications

VirFind offers many helpful features, including:

  • Accepts different input file formats, including fasta and fastq
  • Maps the reads to reference genomes
  • Performs de novo assembly
  • Filters out non-virus sequences that can create noise in the sequencing data
  • Detects and discovers new viruses
  • Performs conserved domain search
  • Reports sequences of unknown origin