CloVR

The CloVR project (http://clovr.org) addresses the bioinformatic bottleneck arising from more and more researchers without bioinformatic experience that want to work with sequence data. In CloVR, automated bioinformatic sequence analysis protocols are combined to allow any researcher without prior bioinformatic experience or local computational support to run even large-scale microbial genomics projects. CloVR includes automated analysis pipelines for diverse genomic applications, such as microbial whole-genome sequencing and annotation, comparative microbial genome analysis, 16S rRNA and internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-based microbiota analysis and shotgun metagenomic analysis. In addition, based the CloVR framework is used to build automated diagnostic pipelines for whole-genome sequencing-based clinical applications.