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Web-based pipeline that classifies viral sequences based on homology to databases and functional annotates them.

Screens metagenomic reads against complete viral genome database before being filtered and then screen against the same database again. Provides viral hit counts and relative abundance.

Can recover novel viruses in metagenomic data using both reference-dependent and reference-independent approaches; Uses referenced-based and reference-free approaches in unison relying on probabilistic similarity models and referenced base

Includes complete genomes of viruses and their hosts gathered from RefSeq, GenBank, UniProt, and ViralZone

An alignment-free approach for distinction between phages and eukaryotic viruses in metagenome data

Made up of two BLAST-based pipelines – Virome and Discovery. Virome aligns reads to a curated database to identify viral sequences and compute their abundance in the sample. Discovery focuses on contig-based analysis to aid novel virus disc

Fast and accurate, making it suitable for predicting phages' host range from metagenomic data

This week, we interviewed Gavin Hands, CEO of Cellexus, about the company's history of helping phage researchers and biotech companies scale up their phage production. This week, we bring you a Q&A with Gavin Hands, CEO of Cellexus. This p

Invitris is a new team out of TU Munich funded to spin off a phage therapy biotech company based on their unique synthetic phage production system. They're looking for an additional team member at the intersection of microbiology and the cl

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Professor Lone Brøndsted (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) has an opening in her lab for a PhD student to work on a phage-host interaction project.

June Round (University of Utah) is seeking a postdoc to study phages in commensal populations of Clostridium.

Phage Directory Our next PHAVES event will be Tuesday, July 21 at 11 AM Eastern, 5 PM CEST (GMT+2). Piotr Tynecki of SLAVIC AI, the creator of phage.ai, will give a talk entitled "Boosting phage exploration by Artificial Intelligence: what

Cassandra Nelson, University of Maryland Next week’s Pseudomonas Seminar will be held on Tuesday July 21th at 1pm EST. Our speaker will be Dr. Patrick Secor from the University of Montana presenting “The intersection of quorum sensing and P

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Nigeria Are you changing lab or upgrading equipment? Consider donating used or old equipment to our phage lab to help us build our phage capacity. Email: eennadi@gmail.com

Emmanuel Nnadi, Plateau State University, Nigeria Would you consider a phage that has acitivity against Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus capitis, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas spp an asset or liability? Good phage

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new preprint on a new prophage-encoded defense protein that simultaneously suppresses phage epidemics in a population (through abortive infection) and provides self-immunity to t

James Gurney (Georgia Institute of Technology) and colleagues published a new paper on 'phage steering': when phages are used to push pathogens to evolve to be less antibiotic-resistant. They show that Pseudomonas phage OMKO1 effectively pu

Intralytix has been issued a US patent covering its Shigella phages and their various formulations and applications (US Patent # 10,711,252), including improving food safety and human health, maintaining healthy gut microflora by modulating

Stanley Ho (University of Birmingham) has made a list of bioinformatics tools for predicting and identifying phages in metagenomes and metaviromes. See also this Twitter thread, where others have been sharing similar tools.