Covidex: an ultrafast and accurate tool for virus subtyping

Summary Covidex is an open-source, alignment-free machine learning subtyping tool for viral species. It is a shiny app that allows a fast and accurate classification in pre-defined clusters for SARS-CoV-2 and FMDV genome sequences. The user can also build its own classification models with the Covidex model generator. Availability Covidex is open-source, cross-platform compatible, and is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt ). Covidex is available via SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/projects/covidex or the web application https://cacciabue.shinyapps.io/shiny2/ Contact [email protected] ; [email protected]