====== VirusDetect ======
VirusDetect is a software package that can efficiently and exhaustively analyze large-scale sRNA sequence datasets for known and novel virus identification.

===== Information =====

  * Version: 1.7
  * Added: June, 2018
  * Link: http://virusdetect.feilab.net/cgi-bin/virusdetect/index.cgi

===== Usage =====

See versions of virusdetect which are available:
<code>$ module avail virusdetect</code>

Load one version into your environment and run it:
<code>$ module load virusdetect/1.7
$ virus_detect.pl</code>

===== Installation ======
Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

<code>$ cd /tmp
$ wget ftp://bioinfo.bti.cornell.edu/pub/program/VirusDetect/VirusDetect_v1.7.tar.gz
$ tar xf VirusDetect_v1.7.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir /export/apps/virusdetect
$ sudo cp -r VirusDetect_v1.7 /export/apps/virusdetect/1.7</code>

Note that VirusDetect provides its own version of BWA, SAMtools, Velvet, and BLAST.