Giant Virus Finder

The Giant Virus Finder is a free bioinformatics software for finding giant viruses in metagenomes.

Giant Virus Finder
Developer(s)	Csaba Kerepesi
Written in	Perl, Python
Operating system	Linux
Available in	English
Type	Bioinformatics
License	GNU General Public Licence
Website	http://pitgroup.org/giant-virus-finder

Applications

The Giant Virus Finder tool integrates and applies the Giant Virus Toplist, the list of the largest virus genomes. With the tool, giant viruses were found in diverse habitats, like the Great Rann of Kutch ^[1] or the Mojave Desert, the Prairie, or the Antarctic dry valleys.^[2]