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There’s a lot of improvement we can engineer into phages! Phil Huss (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new paper on engineering phages using metagenomic data, showing how deep mining of metagenomic motifs can be us

Looking to find phage sequences in your metagenomic data? A new tool, Jaeger, finds more true positives, fewer false positives, in a reduced runtime!

The University of Tübingen (Germany) is hiring a PhD student to investigate virus dynamics in soil and rhizosphere using metagenomics.

Eugen Pfeifer (Jouy-en-Josas, France) is hiring a PhD student to study phages in the human gut using molecular biology and metagenomics.

The lab of Dr. Spencer Diamond at UC Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute is recruiting postdocs to join a team including Jennifer Doudna and Jillian Banfield to generate a systems level understanding of microbiomes, including the impor

The Silveira lab at the University of Miami is seeking a postdoc to investigate phage-bacteria interactions in South Florida ecosystems.

Paper: Metagenomic analysis of wastewater phageome from a University Hospital in Turkey.

Postdoc: in the lab of Viral Metagenomics headed by Prof. Jelle Matthijnssens, University of Leuven in Belgium, on integration of bacterial and viral metagenomics datasets in the context of liver diseases.

Pre-print: MetaPhage: an automated pipeline for analyzing, annotating, and classifying bacteriophages in metagenomics sequencing data

Paper: Learn to decipher active prophages from metagenomes using PropagAtE (Prophage Activity Estimator), an automated software tool for estimating if a prophage is in the lytic or lysogenic stage of infection

PhD candidate to characterize host-virus mechanisms, investigate the evolutionary processes that led to their emergence, and measure their activity in diverse biomes.

WIsH predicts the hosts of phages from their genomic sequences. It achieves 63% mean accuracy when predicting the host genus among 20 genera for 3 kbp-long phage contigs. WisH is also fast and accurate on phage sequences of a few kbp, makin

Andrzej Zielezinski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and colleagues published a new preprint describing PHIST, a fast and accurate prediction of prokaryotic hosts from metagenomic viral sequences.

Michael Tisza and Christopher Buck (National Cancer Institute, NIH) published a new paper in PNAS showing how a catalog of > 45,000 viruses associated with human bodies reveals hidden associations with chronic diseases. Specifically, they f

The Quadram Institute of Biosciences (Norwich, UK) is inviting applications for the post of bioinformatician to join the Gut Microbes and Health Programme, to work with vast datasets of metagenomic sequence data and gain experience with cut

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.

Ever wondered about phage abundance, diversity or geographic patterns of phage-host interactions in an urban setting like New York City? Kristen Gulino (New York University) and collaborators published a new paper in mSystems showing the in

Kristopher Kieft and colleagues (University of Wisconsin-Madison) published a new paper in Microbiome about VIBRANT, a new hybrid machine learning and protein similarity approach for automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial

Oliver Bezuidt (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems that sheds light on Antarctic phage-host interactions. Their metagenomic analysis picked up DISARM, BREX and CRISPR-Cas defense systems i

Metagenomics is enabling discovery of millions of new viral sequences, but no tools previously existed to estimate their quality. Stephen Nayfach (DOE Joint Genome Institute) and colleagues created CheckV, an automated pipeline for assessin