Viral infection diagnostics using high-throughput sequencing
Powerful and tested web-based bioinformatics tools for analyzing and managing your data—from samples to reference genomes.
Boyes, I., Hoffmann, R., and Rott., M. (2020). Virtool: Viral infection diagnostics using next-generation sequencing [Online]. Available online at: http://www.virtool.ca

Detect Known Pathogens
Use our fast detection workflow and simple result visualization.

Detect Novel Pathogens
Use our assembly and profile hidden Markov model workflow to predict novel viral sequences.

Manage sample data
Intuitively manage samples and their analyses.

QC
Automatically run and view FastQC-based quality control (QC) on sample data.

Sequence References
Construct collections of sequences organized into organization taxonomic units (OTU).

OTU Records
Organize pathogens into organization taxonmic units (OTU), the fundamental building block of references.

Hidden Markov Models
Explore the profile hidden Markov models used to predict novel viral sequences.

Subtraction Genomes
Manage genomes for eliminating non-pathogen reads from analysis workflows.

Open Source
Virtool is open source and makes heavy use of open source software and published bioinformatic tools.