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Carolin Wendling at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany is seeking a PhD student to work on a newly-funded European Research Council project focused on using phages to combat drug-resistant bacterial infections. They are

The Phage Hunters Training and Research Program (PHTRP) has launched a fundraiser to support their Phage Training Startup Fund. This initiative aims to equip young scientists in Africa and other developing countries with the skills needed

The Société Française de Bioinformatique, Lyon, France is hiring a Master's level bioinformatician to study the phageomes and counter-defensomes of microbial communities.

Archana Anand has announced that the BRaVE Phage Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring postdocs and research assistants. The team is particularly interested in candidates with a passion for viruses, wastewater research,

Archana Anand has announced that the BRaVE Phage Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring postdocs and research assistants. The team is particularly interested in candidates with a passion for viruses, wastewater research,

“We created a MASH database for rapid searching of closely related phages, to then be compared with BLASTn to compute intergenomic similarity between bacteriophages.” The authors report that taxmyPHAGE is available as a conda repository and

Cody Martin (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and colleagues published a new preprint on Protein Set Transformer: A protein-based genome language model to power high diversity viromics.

Florian Tesson (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper on the DefenseFinder webservice/wiki/database for antiphage defense mechanisms, showing an updated resource with 152 identified systems.

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

At Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France), we are passionate about developing new drugs to address microbiome-associated unmet medical needs, as highlighted by our recent publication in Nature. To join our team and bring our exciting technology

Jonas Fernbach (ETH Zurich) and colleagues used the PhagePromoter algorithm to identify intergenic loci in the S. aureus phage K genome for targeted payload integration, and validated their approach by engineering recombinant phages with bi

Ryan Cook (Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK) and colleagues have identified many phages that repurpose stop codons to encode amino acids. They re-annotated these sequences with modified versions of Pharokka and Prokka to automatically predi

The study predicted 76 INPHARED genomes and 712 Unified Human Gut Virome Catalogue vOTUs that repurpose a stop codon to encode an amino acid, and re-annotated them with modified Pharokka-gv and Prokka-gv tools. For sequences predicted to re

PharaCon applies conditional BERT to phage identification, incorporating labels during pre-training and fine-tuning. The authors evaluated the framework on simulated sequences and real metagenomic contigs. bioRxiv

In a new preprint, Ritam Das and Janina Rahlff (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) describe a positive correlation between the number of structural genes and above-average guanine-cytosine (GC) content in phage genomes.

PrecisionPhage, a new startup based in Finland, has launched Phagenomics, a browser-based tool for phage genome analysis to streamline assembly and annotation for researchers and clinicians.

The Atkinson lab at Lund University, Sweden are seeking a bioinformatics PhD student to be involved in the Novo Nordisk funded project: ‘Development of phage biocontrol to overcome the antiphage defense system arsenal of phytopathogenic Ral

The newly established Integrative Viromics Lab at the University of Calgary, led by Dr. Ann Gregory, is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc and a lab technician/manager. The postdoc will work on viral ecology and evolution, while the lab techni

The 2023 PhageScope paper describes a database with 873,718 phage sequences and annotations for genome completeness, hosts, lifestyle, taxonomy and genetic elements, plus automated analyses and visualizations. Oxford Academic