GeoBoost: accelerating research involving the geospatial metadata of virus GenBank records.

ABSTRACT:

Summary

GeoBoost is a command-line software package developed to address sparse or incomplete metadata in GenBank sequence records that relate to the location of the infected host (LOIH) of viruses. Given a set of GenBank accession numbers corresponding to virus GenBank records, GeoBoost extracts, integrates and normalizes geographic information reflecting the LOIH of the viruses using integrated information from GenBank metadata and related full-text publications. In addition, to facilitate probabilistic geospatial modeling, GeoBoost assigns probability scores for each possible LOIH.

Availability and implementation

Binaries and resources required for running GeoBoost are packed into a single zipped file and freely available for download at https://tinyurl.com/geoboost. A vi

SUBMITTER: Tahsin T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5925778 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature