title: viRome: an R package for the visualization and analysis of viral small RNA sequence datasets.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  RNA interference (RNAi) is known to play an important part in defence against viruses in a range of species. Second-generation sequencing technologies allow us to assay these systems and the small RNAs that play a key role with unprecedented depth. However, scientists need access to tools that can condense, analyse and display the resulting data. Here, we present viRome, a package for R that takes aligned sequence data and produces a range of essential plots and reports.
  
  
  METHODS
  viRome is released under the BSD license as a package for R available for both Windows and Linux http://virome.sf.net. Additional information and a tutorial is available on the ARK-Genomics website: http://www.ark-genomics.org/bioinformatics/virome.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  mick.watson@roslin.ed.ac.uk.
authors.affiliation: ARK-Genomics, The Roslin Institute and Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian EH25 9RG. mick.watson@roslin.ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mick
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schnettler
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kohl
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D023281:Genomics; D034622:RNA Interference; D058727:RNA, Small Untranslated / Q000737:chemistry*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D058727:RNA, Small Untranslated; D012367:RNA, Viral