BioinformaticsPLoS ONEPeer-reviewed
Comparative evaluation of bioinformatic tools for virus-host prediction and their application to a highly diverse community in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Mexico
Alejandro Miguel Cisneros-Martínez, Ulises E. Rodríguez-Cruz, Luis David Alcaraz…·Valeria Souza
The paper evaluates virus-host prediction tools on a dataset of 1,046 pairs and applies the best-performing tools to a metagenomic dataset from the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, finding that alignment-free and alignment-based methods agree best when analyzing diverse viral communities.