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Adrián Cortés-Martín (University College Cork) and colleagues published a new paper on isolation and characterization of Septuagintavirus, showing a novel clade of Escherichia coli phages within the subfamily Vequintavirinae.

The BV-BRC Viral Sub-species Classification Workshop, funded by NIAID, will be held in Rockville, MD from April 8-10, 2024. This hybrid event, in collaboration with the CDC and NCBI, aims to establish best practices for viral sub-species c

On Feb 28 at 5 PM East Africa Time, the Africa Phage Forum will be hosting a talk by Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens (Quadram Institute; Chair of ICTV Bacterial Viruses Committee) on the recently announced changes to phage taxonomy, including the 

In this new paper in Virus Evolution, Eric Olo Ndela (Université Clermont Auvergne, France) and colleagues report the discovery of sixteen complete microvirus genomes that represent two novel groups of microviruses, tentatively named Reekee

On Feb 28 at 5PM East Africa Time, Phage Kenya Consortium will be hosting a talk by Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens (Quadram Institute; Chair of ICTV Bacterial Viruses Committee) on the recently announced changes to phage taxonomy, including the a

A new paper by Jan Finke (Hakai Institute, Canada) and colleagues describes Deep6, a deep learning model for classification of metatranscriptomic sequences into prokaryotes, eukaryotes, or one of the four viral realms (Duplodnaviria, Varidn

Dann Turner and colleagues at the ICTV published a new paper describing the abolishment of the paraphyletic morphological families of Podoviridae, Siphoviridae, and Myoviridae, as well as the order Caudovirales, and the introduction of one

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recently adopted a binomial naming format for virus species. A new paper describes how to create Latinized binomials for virus species, how to automatically generate large batches of novel

Prof. José R Penadés' research group at Imperial College London is hiring a Research Associate to investigate whether lateral transduction, the most powerful mode of transduction described to date, is widespread in nature.

In this Nature Microbiology paper, Christopher N. Vassallo and colleagues used an experimental selection scheme agnostic to genomic context to identify phage defence systems in 71 diverse E. coli strains. They found 21 conserved defence sys

The Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV have published an update of taxonomy changes from 2020-2021 in Archives of Virology. They've created or redefined a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 su

Dann Turner (University of the West of England) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses entitled A Roadmap for Genome-Based Phage Taxonomy. See also this Twitter thread by Evelien Adriaenssens.

Phage Directory Thanks to all who attended PHAVES 4 this week! We had a great turnout! Next up will be an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Dr. Evelien Adriaenssens on August 18 at 11:00 AM Eastern (GMT-4) / 4:00 PM UK (GMT+1). Evelien will answe

Eugene Koonin (NCBI) and colleagues published a new paper on a new proposed megataxonomy of the virus world. Simon Roux raves about this paper on Twitter, calling it a "near-complete unification of viral taxonomy", and lists his favourite n

Eugene Koonin (NCBI) and colleagues published a new paper on a new proposed megataxonomy of the virus world. Simon Roux raves about this paper on Twitter, calling it a "near-complete unification of viral taxonomy", and lists his favourite n

The now-constant flood of phage sequence data is showing that tailed phages are more genetically diverse than previously thought. This has led to a re-classification of tailed phages, which is described in a new paper by Jakub Barylski and

The now-constant flood of phage sequence data is showing that tailed phages are more genetically diverse than previously thought. This has led to a re-classification of tailed phages, which is described in a new paper by Jakub Barylski and

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