Giant Virus MAGs v2
Welcome to the second release of the Giant Virus MAGs resource; a curated hub of
genomes, protein families and phylogenies that shines a light on the extraordinary
world of Nucleocytoviricota.
Whether you’re tracking hallmark genes, benchmarking a pipeline or simply
marvelling at giant viruses’ evolutionary sprawl, everything you need starts here.
For full methods, file formats and naming rules, see our preprint.
Read the preprint.
Download & Explore
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All genomes (n = 18,727) metadata
Full metadata table for all genomes included. Metadata has taxonomy, GVClass results and environment.
→ Download tsv file
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Interactive reference tree + taxonomy for this tree
Zoom through 2 k+ genomes on iTOL and grab the full metadata table.
→ Open tree in iTOL |
Download csv file
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Genome & protein FASTA bundles
Includes all fna and faa files for 8,508 ANI-clustered genome representatives. A metadata table with all taxonomy, clustering information, and GVClass output
→ Download genomes + proteins
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GVOG HMM library
Hidden-Markov models covering nine giant virus orthologous group in v2.
→ Download HMMs
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Module Plotly
Significant modules in GVMAGsv2.
→ See plotly
Reference
GVMAGs V2.
Yumary M. Vasquez, Tiago Nardi, Tomáš Brůna, Juan C. Villada, Marianne Buscaglia, Miguel F. Romero, Frederik Schulz. 2025. BioRxiv.
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