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PhageGE is a graphical platform for exploring bacteriophage genomes, with interactive genomic analysis and visualization tools. PhageGE: an interactive web platform for exploratory analysis and visualization of bacteriophage genomes

The study characterizes P9ly, a lytic enzyme from bacteriophage PSD9. In laboratory experiments, it showed bacteriolytic and bactericidal activity against multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae and Staphylococcus aureus strains; combining

This review surveys emerging bacteriophage approaches across infectious and non-infectious diseases, including phage engineering, delivery strategies, and translational research. Bacteriophage therapy beyond antibiotics: emerging innovation

A Clinical Infectious Diseases case series screened Mycobacterium isolates from 200 patients for phage susceptibility and gave phages intravenously, by aerosolization or both to 20 patients on a compassionate-use basis. No adverse reactions

Phanta is a workflow for quantifying taxa from short-read human gut metagenomes using a virus-inclusive genome database with integrated taxonomic information. Phanta

The 2026 INPHARED snapshot contained 28,777 complete phage genomes, about twice the 2021 collection, but novel species-level diversity did not rise proportionally and host bias persisted. bioRxiv

The study re-engineered E. coli phage P2 tail fibers with S16 components. The resulting phages were detargeted from native LPS and could infect through S16’s protein receptor, OmpC. PubMed Central

A Perl pipeline for downloading and filtering GenBank phage genomes, extracting taxonomy and host metadata, and generating downstream bioinformatics files. INPHARED repository

Phynteny is an open-source tool from the Edwards Lab (Grigson et al.) that uses a long short-term memory (LSTM) model trained on phage synteny, the conserved gene order across phages, to assign hypothetical phage proteins to a PHROG functio

Based in Abuja, the Phage Research and Advocacy Network brings students, researchers and communities together around phage research, education and advocacy, with interests across health, agriculture and the environment. Phage Research and A

Review of bacteriophage electron microscopy by H.-W. Ackermann (Advances in Virus Research, 2012). It argues that the quality of phage TEM micrographs has slipped since the 1970s, citing a survey of about 130 phage papers since 2006 in whic

Phold annotates bacteriophage genomes and metagenomes using protein structural homology. Its README describes translating protein sequences to Foldseek’s 3Di alphabet with ProstT5 before searching protein structures. Phold

PhaMer is a Python library that identifies bacteriophages in metagenomic data using a Transformer model and protein-based vocabulary. The repository says development moved to PhaBOX 2 and that this folder will no longer be maintained. PhaMe

This review surveys machine-learning applications in bacteriophage research, including phage genomics, host interactions, and microbial-community analysis. Application of machine learning in bacteriophage research

Phages.fr runs an annual conference series in different French cities, bringing together research teams working on bacteriophages. Phages.fr

Phages.fr brings together French research teams and partners working across bacteriophage biology, therapy and biocontrol, and shares their research and activities. Phages.fr

PBI-Scope v0.5.0 adds PhageScope GFF3 information to the pbi package. PBI-Scope GitHub release v0.5.0

The authors benchmarked ten phage identification tools using artificial contigs, a four-phage mock community, and simulated viromes. DeepVirFinder had the highest F1-scores on the artificial contigs and mock community (0.98 and 0.61); most

This review traces phage research from Frederick Twort’s 1915 observations through the discoveries that shaped modern biology. PubMed Central