AnantharamanLab / METABOLIC

A scalable high-throughput metabolic and biogeochemical functional trait profiler
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Can metabolic used for annotation of virus genome? #178

Closed xjhzjucas closed 9 months ago

xjhzjucas commented 9 months ago

Hi developer, I am curious about whether this brilliant tool used for virus genome annotation to figure out some viral metabolic feature?

patriciatran commented 9 months ago

No, this tool was built for bacterial and archeal genomes. It does not use any viral databases for annotations and therefore is not suited for that.

xjhzjucas commented 9 months ago

No, this tool was built for bacterial and archeal genomes. It does not use any viral databases for annotations and therefore is not suited for that.

OK, thank you for your help!