Hecatomb

Version 1

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

# 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