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Nanopore sequencing, in particular, has proven to be suitable for this purpose, as it is readily available and provides rapid results. However, as special bioinformatic programs are required to extract the relevant information from the sequencing data, applications are needed that allow users without extensive bioinformatics knowledge to carry out the relevant analysis steps. We present VirDetector, a bioinformatic pipeline for virus surveillance using nanopore sequencing. The pipeline automatically installs all required programs and databases and allows all its steps to be executed with a single console command. After preprocessing the samples, including the possibility for basecalling, the pipeline classifies each sample taxonomically and reconstructs the viral consensus genomes, which are then used in phylogenetic analyses. 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