vadr
VADR, short for Viral Annotation DefineR, is an open-source software pipeline developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to automate the annotation and quality control of viral genome sequences submitted to GenBank. The project aims to standardize gene models and feature annotations across viral genomes and to improve the reliability of publicly available sequence data.
The pipeline relies on curated reference models to annotate features such as coding sequences, untranslated regions,
In practice, users submit viral genome sequences in FASTA format, and VADR runs a sequence of analyses
VADR is part of the GenBank submission workflow and is maintained by NCBI. It is distributed with