A hecatomb is a great sacrifice or an extensive loss. Heactomb the software empowers an analyst to make data driven decisions to 'sacrifice' false-positive viral reads from metagenomes to enrich for true-positive viral reads. This process frequently results in a great loss of suspected viral sequences / contigs. For information about installation, usage, tutorial etc please refer to the documentation: https://hecatomb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ### Quick start guide Install Hecatomb from Bioconda ```bash # create an env called hecatomb and install Hecatomb in it conda create -n hecatomb -c conda-forge -c bioconda hecatomb # activate conda env conda activate hecatomb # check the installation hecatomb -h # download the databases - you only have to do this once hecatomb install # Run the test dataset hecatomb run --test ```