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This week I’m excited to share how I’ve been using the AKTA Flux system to purify phages for patients. What used to be overwhelming now feels pretty dreamy. Worth considering for any phage lab making patient-ready preps! This week I’m excit

This month, we covered a new phage podcast, launched the Evergreen Phage Meeting sign up site, and talked about using databases for phage work! Time marches on, and another month has gone by! This month we launched the new Evergreen Phage M

This week, Jan continues his casual "Data Series" of posts to show how phage labs can start using relational databases today, with Airtable. In the previous issue, Working with tabular data, we looked at some capabilities, pros, and cons of

This month, we talked about analyzing qPCR results, Phage Australia's official response to the Phage UK inquiry, and got hands on with building a project with ChatGPT! We put out some good work in April! This month we’ve been neck deep in d

This week, Jessica Sacher shows you how, as a non-coder, she got ChatGPT to help her make a chatbot that knows everything we've published across 220 Capsid & Tail blog posts (almost every week for the last 4.5 years!), how you can play with

This month we featured a new phage startup out of Shanghai, and massive write-ups on lab automation, working with tabular data, and using qPCR for phage therapy. March was an action-packed month! We had a great post about a new phage startu

This week, Jan takes another detour into data-land, playing around with spreadsheets and tabular data, exploring VLOOKUP, pivot tables, and other formulas. In our previous data issue, we defined some types of data, and explored ways to thin

This week we introduce a new guest writer, Thomas Hunt, who will write about his experiences in lab automation. In a lot of ways, the mentality of coding and lab work are polar opposites. Work in the lab is meticulous and demands a strong a

This month, we featured a new UK Phage Therapy initiative and wrote about lessons in scaling bio and how to think about data. Another month is behind us! This time, we’re posting this Roundup in the mountains of New Zealand! We’re really pr

This week, Jan goes meta about data. Everyone throws around the term data, but what is it exactly? Jan explores the different kinds of data, how to work with data, and shares some ideas for keeping data neat and tidy. “Data” is one of those

Well hello there, 2023! We’ve made great strides in the past year, gotten our hands wet in the lab (Jessica at least 😉), built data systems, and even delivered phages for patients. This year we aim to do a whole lot more of that! This week

We’re at the end of the year again, and what a whirlwind of a 2022 it’s been! Here's our annual end-of-year reflection on what we're most proud of, what we've accomplished, & those who've helped us along the way! Hi phage friends, We’re at

This week, Jan takes a detour into data analytics! This follows up on the last informal Data Series post designing an auditable, replicable, and accessible phage data system. This time, Jan delves a bit deeper into what data analytics is, w

This week, we highlight our October feature articles: Dive down the rabbit hole with us on designing phage data systems, building sustainable phage therapy, and get excited for this year's World Phage Week! Here's what we published this mon

This week Jan Zheng explores a few design decisions and considerations behind building a system for collecting data from every part of the phage therapy pipeline. For phage therapy to be efficient, cost-effective, and reliable at scale, eve

This week, we highlight the feature articles we published in September! Learn about main themes from Phage Futures Europe 2022, MetaPhage: a new pipeline for turning raw reads into phage insights, and how to set up a basic phage QC system i

MetaPhage is a new pipeline for turning raw reads into phage insights. It’s a massive step in the right direction towards one-click phage analysis. Here's my trying (and failing) to run MetaPhage on a laptop, and a short tutorial to get you

This week Marcin Lubocki and Piotr Tynecki explain how AI tools like PhageAI can help us characterize our phages faster and more accurately (but only with the help of the phage community!). ## The phage therapy perspective in the nearest fu

How do you turn subjective observations into a quantified, somewhat-less-subjective observations? This week Jan Zheng continues his phage data series, delving into how (and why) the well-known 'Net Promotor Score' used by software companies

Now that we’ve covered tracking phage metadata and building identities for our phages, it’s time to consider how our phages fit into our biobanks. This week in Capsid and Tail, Jan Zheng explains his thinking on how to organize phage bioban