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Ruoshi Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany) and colleagues published a new preprint on SpacePHARER, a tool that predicts phage-host relationships by identifying phage genomes that match CRISPR spacers in genomic o

Dmitry Antipov (Institute for Translational Biomedicine, Russia) and colleagues published a new paper in Bioinformatics on metaviralSPAdes, a tool for viral assembly from metagenomic data.

Anti-CRISPRs are widespread among phages, but it's been hard to screen for them. Jiawei Wang and colleagues at Monash University have developed an ensemble learning based predictor, PaCRISPR, to accurately identify anti-CRISPRs from protein

Ruoshi Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany) and colleagues published a new preprint on SpacePHARER, a tool that predicts phage-host relationships by identifying phage genomes that match CRISPR spacers in genomic o

Andrej Balaz (Geneton Ltd, Slovakia) and colleagues published a preprint describing PHERI, a phage host exploration tool that uses a machine learning algorithm to predict the host of a phage based on its sequence. Preprint | Application dow

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

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

Andrej Balaz (Geneton Ltd, Slovakia) and colleagues published a preprint describing PHERI, a phage host exploration tool that uses a machine learning algorithm to predict the host of a phage based on its sequence. Preprint | Application dow

Want to mine prophage regions from large metagenomic datasets? Phigaro is a command-line application created by Elizaveta Starikova (Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Russia) and colleagues. It detects prop

Want to mine prophage regions from large metagenomic datasets? Phigaro is a command-line application created by Elizaveta Starikova (Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Russia) and colleagues. It detects prop

New bioinformatics tool published by Qiaoliang Liu (Jilin University) for identifying phages from metagenomic bins and contigs: Virus Finding & Mining (VFM).

New bioinformatics tool published by Qiaoliang Liu (Jilin University) for identifying phages from metagenomic bins and contigs: Virus Finding & Mining (VFM).

What's the hardest part of phage genome annotation? According to Marta Sampaio and colleagues at the University of Minho, it's finding phage promoters. Here's a new tool they developed, PhagePromoter, to help you find them.

What's the hardest part of phage genome annotation? According to Marta Sampaio and colleagues at the University of Minho, it's finding phage promoters. Here's a new tool they developed, PhagePromoter, to help you find them.

Two new phage bioinformatics tools for you this week: first, a phage host finding tool: link phages and potential hosts by finding shared attachment sites for prophage integration (GitHub), and second, Prophage Hunter: an integrative huntin

Two new phage bioinformatics tools for you this week: first, a phage host finding tool: link phages and potential hosts by finding shared attachment sites for prophage integration (GitHub), and second, Prophage Hunter: an integrative huntin

Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc and colleagues from the Sullivan lab at Ohio State University, along with several collaborators from the US, UK, Canada, France, and Belgium, have published a paper this week in Nature Biotechnology describing a

Ho Bin Jang, Benjamin Bolduc and colleagues from the Sullivan lab at Ohio State University, along with several collaborators from the US, UK, Canada, France, and Belgium, have published a paper this week in Nature Biotechnology describing a

Phigaro is a scalable command-line tool by Elizaveta Starikova and colleagues for phage and prophage prediction from nucleid acid sequences (including metagenomes). It can also produce annotated prophage genome maps and distinguish tailed f

Phage genomes can be hard to annotate, especially with tools that aren't designed with phages in mind. Fortunately, Katelyn McNair and colleagues in Rob Edwards' lab have published a paper describing their new phage gene caller, PHANOTATE.