VIBRANT: automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial viruses, and evaluation of viral community function from genomic sequences

Background Viruses are central to microbial community structure in all environments. The ability to generate large metagenomic assemblies of mixed microbial and viral sequences provides the opportunity to tease apart complex microbiome dynamics, but these analyses are currently limited by the tools available for analyses of viral genomes and assessing their metabolic impacts on microbiomes. Design Here we present VIBRANT, the first method to...