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We're excited to share a sneak-peek into our progress toward creating a global phage catalogue and search tool! We're excited to share a sneak-peek into our progress toward creating a global phage catalogue and search tool! At the start of

In the spirit of social distancing and working from home, this week we're exploring some ideas and tools that enable online communities and allow teams to collaborate from around the world and to work from home. As more labs and offices are

Need phages for your research? This week, we bring you a guide on how to use Phage Directory to find the phages you need. We started our Phage Alerts system in response to a patient's imminent need for phages, and we still use it for these

This week, Julie Callanan, a PhD student at APC Microbiome Ireland and University College Cork, introduces us to RNA phages, why they're so elusive, and how her research is beginning to unravel their secrets. The delight of finding Wally am

Happy New Year, phage enthusiasts! This week, we share how we plan to help the phage research community systematize and standardize phage data collection in 2020. We spent the last year visiting phage labs and companies, and talking to phag

This week, we're covering an introductory phage genome annotation workshop that was taught at the 2019 Evergreen Phage Conference. The workshop, Phage Genomics with Galaxy and Apollo, was taught by Jason Gill, a professor at the Center for

This week is a special, exciting week for Phage Directory! We’ve got big news pertaining to funding, new directions, and a website makeover! And to balance out all the NEW, our feature article this week focuses on something that’s staying t

UC Denver postdoc Dr. Anushila Chatterjee attended this year's Ohio State University Viromics Workshop. Here's her report on what was covered! ## Exploring the virus world, inside out Did you know that your body contains 100-fold more virus

Where can you buy phages, and where can you deposit yours? This week, we take a tour of phage banks around the world. Where in the world can you buy a phage? This week, we're profiling five phage banks: one in Canada, one in Germany, one in

Beyond therapeutics, phage-based diagnostics show the versatility of phages in biotech. This week, guest writer Cathy Nguyen takes us through three examples of phage-based diagnostics. Phage-based diagnostics have been implemented in variou

This week, we’re sharing insights from our experience talking to middle school kids about phages, phage therapy, and Phage Directory. This month, Jan and I were asked to talk to a bunch of grade 7 and 8 kids in the small, rural town of Olds

Phanta is a workflow for quantifying taxa from short-read human gut metagenomes using a virus-inclusive genome database with integrated taxonomic information. Phanta

The official abstract book for the 9th World Conference on Targeting Phage Therapy includes over 48 contributions from 24 countries. Topics include phage therapy, One Health, and production, regulation and market access. Targeting Phage The

A Perl pipeline for downloading and filtering GenBank phage genomes, extracting taxonomy and host metadata, and generating downstream bioinformatics files. INPHARED repository

Phynteny is an open-source tool from the Edwards Lab (Grigson et al.) that uses a long short-term memory (LSTM) model trained on phage synteny, the conserved gene order across phages, to assign hypothetical phage proteins to a PHROG functio

Phold annotates bacteriophage genomes and metagenomes using protein structural homology. Its README describes translating protein sequences to Foldseek’s 3Di alphabet with ProstT5 before searching protein structures. Phold

PhageMine is open-source software for bacteriophage genomics, genome annotation and comparative phage genomics. Its Bioconda package has reached version 1.2.0; the developer invites researchers to try it and share feedback. Nnaemeka Emmanue

Phagenomics BatchQC is a phage genome quality control platform designed for GMP production. PrecisionPhage says it monitors phage batch genomes and detects contamination in GMP production environments; the page states it is launching in 202

PhaMer is a Python library that identifies bacteriophages in metagenomic data using a Transformer model and protein-based vocabulary. The repository says development moved to PhaBOX 2 and that this folder will no longer be maintained. PhaMe

PhageBench contains 5,600 samples across phage screening, quality control and phenotype annotation tasks. Its evaluation found stronger-than-random performance on some tasks and limitations in complex sequence reasoning. ACL Anthology