VirID

Model

VirID automates RNA virus detection in three stages: RNA virus discovery, phylogenetic analysis, and phylogeny-based virus characterization. It outputs viral sequences, phylogenetic trees, and detailed reports, offering flexibility and accuracy in identifying putative viral sequences and their host associations.

Installation

• python>=3.8
• R 4.2

Step 1: Install conda and third-party dependencies

VirID requires third-party packages from the conda-forge and bioconda channels

conda install -c bioconda blast bbmap seqkit  mafft megahit trimal  pplacer  taxonkit  bowtie2 cd-hit
conda install taxonkit diamond==2.1.4  bowtie2 samtools==1.16.1
pip install Bio biopython DendroPy  matplotlib    numpy   pandas regex seaborn  tqdm

Notes:

• Version of the tool available for reference:

  • bbduk.sh：bbmap v39.01 ； Seqkit v2.4.0 ；bowtie2 v2.5.1 ；megahit v1.2.9
  • mafft v7.520 ；trimal v1.4.1 ；makeblastdb,blastn,blastp v2.13.0+
  • samtools v1.16.1 ；diamond v2.1.4

• The taxonkit dataset should also be downloaded!

Step 2: Install VirID via pip

All python packages will be downloaded automatically!

pip install VirID

Step 3: Install R and R package

#install R package
R
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("ggtree")
packages=c("tidyverse"，"ggplot2","RColorBrewer","phangorn","networkD3","jsonlite","dplyr","networkD3","jsonlite")
ipak <- function(pkg){
    new.pkg <- pkg[!(pkg %in% installed.packages()[, "Package"])]
    if (length(new.pkg))  
        install.packages(new.pkg)
    sapply(pkg, require, character.only = TRUE)
}
ipak(packages)

Notes: tidyverse is based on systemfonts and you may need the following code to install it

conda install r-systemfonts

Step 4: Downloading and configuring the database.

VirID requires an environment variable named VirID_DB_PATH, this is the parent directory for the following databases.

See below for specific database configurations.

#set VirID_DB_PATH to environment variable
export VirID_DB_PATH=/path/to/the/database/

Notes:

• The databases take up a lot of space, so make sure you have enough disk space. If you already have these databases, you can skip the download step and just configure them.

• The download speed of the database depends on the internet. You can also choose other download methods such as ascp.

rRNA

• 1.1 Download the file from this link or here.

• 1.2 Unzip the file and Using bowtie2 to build the index.

  bunzip2 -cv VirID_rRNA_db.fasta.bz2 > VirID_DB_PATH/rRNA/VirID_rRNA_db.fasta
  bowtie2-build VirID_DB_PATH/rRNA/VirID_rRNA_db.fasta VirID_DB_PATH/rRNA/rRNA_cutout_ref

PROT_ACC2TAXID

#Download the `PROT_ACC2TAXID` file
wget -c https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/accession2taxid/prot.accession2taxid.gz
wget -c https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/accession2taxid/prot.accession2taxid.gz.md5

#Check for the file integrity
md5sum -c prot.accession2taxid.gz.md5

#Unzip the files and onfiguration
gunzip -c prot.accession2taxid.gz > VirID_DB_PATH/accession2taxid/prot.accession2taxid

NCBI Non-Redundant Protein Database (NR)

NCBI Nucleotide Sequence Database (NT)

Usage

VirID medthod [options]

• medthod:
  • end_to_end
  • assembly_and_basic_annotation
  • phylogenetic_analysis

Example

VirID end_to_end  -i 1.fastq -i2 2.fastq \
    -out_dir out_path  --threads 60 --keep_dup
	
VirID assembly_and_basic_annotation -i 1.fastq -i2 2.fastq \
    -out_dir out_path  --threads 60 
	
VirID phylogenetic_analysis -classify_i test/test_contig.fasta   \
	-out_dir out_path   --threads 90 --keep_dup