Tools

vHULK – Viral Host UnveiLing Kit – A toolkit for phage host prediction

vHULK is a Python tool for prediction of bacteriophage hosts based on viral genomic features
Input: Fasta file of viral genome
Output: Prediction probabilities of bacterial hosts along with confidence metric
Core methodology: Artificial Neural Network trained with RefSeq bacteriophage genomes

MARVEL – Metagenomic Analysis and Retrieval of Viral ELements

MARVEL is a Python tool for prediction of phage genomes in metagenomic bins
Input: Bins generated from metagenomic sequencing datasets
Output: Bins predicted as phage genomes along with prediction probabilities
Core methodology: Random Forest algorithm trained with RefSeq genomes for binary phage prediction