virulencefinder.py(1)

virulencefinder.py1

Identify virulence genes in total or partial sequenced isolates of bacteria

Overview

usage: virulencefinder.py [-h] -i INFILE [INFILE ...] [-o OUTDIR]

[-tmp TMP_DIR] [-mp METHOD_PATH] [-p DB_PATH]

[-d DATABASES] [-l MIN_COV] [-t THRESHOLD] [-x] [--speciesinfo_json SPECIESINFO_JSON] [-q]

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-i INFILE [INFILE ...], --infile INFILE [INFILE ...]

FASTA or FASTQ input files.

-o OUTDIR, --outputPath OUTDIR

Path to blast output

-tmp TMP_DIR, --tmp_dir TMP_DIR

Temporary directory for storage of the results from the external software.

-mp METHOD_PATH, --methodPath METHOD_PATH

Path to method to use (kma or blastn)

-p DB_PATH, --databasePath DB_PATH

Path to the databases

-d DATABASES, --databases DATABASES

Databases chosen to search in - if non is specified all is used

-l MIN_COV, --mincov MIN_COV

Minimum coverage

-t THRESHOLD, --threshold THRESHOLD

Minimum hreshold for identity

-x, --extented_output

Give extented output with allignment files, template and query hits in fasta and a tab seperated file with gene profile results

--speciesinfo_json SPECIESINFO_JSON

Argument used by the cge pipeline. It takes a list in json format consisting of taxonomy, from domain -> species. A database is chosen based on the taxonomy.

-q, --quiet

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–13

Author

This manpage was written by Nilesh Patra for the Debian distribution and
can be used for any other usage of the program.

From virulencefinder 2.0.5-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.