VDIFF

A tool for comparing virus genomes written C++. This is a school project from early 2020.

Introduction and Demonstration video

Prerequisites

• C++17 with g++-9 in your path.
• make
• git

Installing

git clone https://github.com/tehp/vdiff.git
cd vdiff
mkdir dist
make

Example Usage

Run VDIFF on SARS and COVID-19 with min_match_size of 0.

./dist/vdiff sars cov 0

Run VDIFF on SARS and Ebola with min_match_size of 10.

./dist/vdiff sars ebola 10

CSV Output

The program outputs the coordinates of every match it finds. These points are represented as x = location in A, y = location in B. Each line is one point, in the format x,y.