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Rebecca Wattam of PATRIC (alongside Ramy Aziz) taught an incredibly helpful phage genome annotation workshop at the Evergreen phage meeting earlier this month. Did you know Rebecca has also created a Coursera course on Bacterial Bioinformat

The Edwards lab at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) is hiring a research associate in bioinformatics. As part of the new Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration, the research associate will advance understanding of IBD by a

Leibniz-Institut DSMZ (Germany) is looking for a postdoctoral research associate. Specific tasks include the provision and deposit of novel phages and host organisms, isolation and characterization of phages, sequencing and subsequent bioin

The Mostowy lab at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland is hiring a postdoc to work on bioinformatics and genomics of phages that infect opportunistic bacterial pathogens like Klebsiella pneumoniae and interact with their polysacch

The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022 (ViBioM 2022) will be held in Valencia, Spain, 24–25 March 2022. The meeting (currently planned to be in-person) is jointly organized by the European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), th

Ryan Cook (University of Nottingham) and colleagues published a new paper describing INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database (INPHARED): a way to identify large-scale biases in the current collection of phage genomes. It includes a sc

Acknowledging the importance of genomic characterization of phages to understand their biology and for their safe use in therapeutics and other applications, International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC) and Phage Directory, USA ar

The International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC) and Phage Directory are co-hosting a series of Phage Bioinformatics Webinars. The second speaker in the series will be March 2 at 9.00 pm IST / 7.30 am PST, with a talk by Katelyn

Eligo Bioscience (Paris, France) is hiring a bioinformatics intern to help build, test and run a bioinformatics pipelines to help Eligo’s team engineer phages to target specific bacteria in the microbiome.

Analysis of phage genomes replete with hypothetical genes is a challenge. Given the importance of genomic characterization of phages to understand their biology and for their safe use, International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC)

The Center for Microbiome Science at Ohio State University is hosting a Microbiome Informatics webinar series, running from March to May 2021. Register here! This series represents a first phase effort to digitize 7 years of a hands-on info

Jiawei Wang (Monash University) and colleagues published a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research describing AcrHub: an integrative hub for investigating, predicting and mapping anti-CRISPR proteins.

Jolene Ramsey (Texas A&M University) and colleagues published a new paper in PLoS Computational Biology describing Galaxy and Apollo as a biologist-friendly interface for high-quality cooperative phage genome annotation. Researchers can use

Long-read genome sequencing suffers from high DNA requirements and sequencing errors, so Olivier Zablocki (Ohio State University) and colleagues developed VirION2, an integrated short- and long-read metagenomic wet-lab and informatics pipel

What's the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence genes in complete/near-complete phage genomes? The Millard Lab did an analysis; here are the results.

This teaching module uses PHASTER and other freely available tools for phage genome identification and phylogenetic analysis in undergraduate microbiology courses. The exercises were field-tested in classes and undergraduate directed resear

“What the Phage” combines bacteriophage identification tools with downstream annotation and classification in a parallel Nextflow workflow. It scales to thousands of datasets and helps users assess cases where tools disagree. bioRxiv

Hello, #phage tweeps! I have a question. Suppose you have a bunch of phage MAGs, each composed of more than 1 contig: how do you calculate their completeness? I have a couple of ideas, but I still need to evaluate their feasibility. - @Mich

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

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