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GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral taxonomy application.

Richard Mayne¹, Pakorn Aiewsakun², Dann Turner³

¹Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, 3 South Parks Road, OX1 3SY Oxfordshire, UK.

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Genome Relationships Applied to Viral Taxonomy Version 2 (GRAViTy-V2) offers a powerful, automated approach to virus classification. This tool accurately classifies viruses down to the species level, matching expert-curated taxonomies and improving evolutionary studies.

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Area of Science:

Virology
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Taxonomy

Background:

Accurate virus classification is crucial for understanding viral evolution and disease.
Current methods rely on amino acid motifs for higher ranks and nucleotide identities for lower ranks.
Existing frameworks require optimization for broader applicability and efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Genome Relationships Applied to Viral Taxonomy Version 2 (GRAViTy-V2), an enhanced computational tool for virus classification.
To evaluate GRAViTy-V2's performance against expert-curated viral taxonomies.
To provide a general-purpose, optimized application for genomic virus classification.

Main Methods:

Development of GRAViTy-V2, incorporating expanded features and optimizations.
Analysis of 28 datasets based on ICTV 2022 taxonomy proposals.
Comparison of GRAViTy-V2 output with human expert-curated classifications from the ICTV 2023 round.

Main Results:

GRAViTy-V2 generated taxonomies equivalent to manual classifications at family, genus, and species levels.
Discrepancies were primarily attributed to coding sequence annotation errors or incomplete genome data.
Analysis times were efficient, with a median of 3.59 minutes across diverse datasets.

Conclusions:

GRAViTy-V2 is a robust and efficient tool for automated viral taxonomic classification.
The tool demonstrates high concordance with expert-driven classifications, supporting its use in routine taxonomy.
Addressing data quality issues in sequence records will further enhance classification accuracy.