Running head: Viruses, Amplicon sequencing, Bioinformatics
vAMPirus: A versatile amplicon processing and analysis program for studying viruses
Alex J. Veglia1, Ramón E. Rivera-Vicéns2,3, Carsten G.B. Grupstra1,4, Lauren I. Howe-Kerr1, and Adrienne M.S. Correa1
1BioSciences Department, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
2Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 München, Germany
3Department of Sciences and Technology, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico at Barranquitas, PO Box 517, Barranquitas, PR 00794, USA
4 Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
KEYWORDS – Virus, bioinformatics, diversity, DNA, RNA, amplicon sequencing, amino acid
1Corresponding Author: 1 Alex J. Veglia alex.veglia@gmail.com