PhageScope: a well-annotated bacteriophage database with automatic analyses and visualizations.

ABSTRACT: Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria or archaea. Understanding the diverse and intricate genomic architectures of phages is essential to study microbial ecosystems and develop phage therapy strategies. However, the existing phage databases are short of meticulous annotations. To this end, we propose PhageScope (https://phagescope.deepomics.org), an online phage database with comprehensive annotations. PhageScope harbors a collection of 873 718 phage sequences from various sources. Applying fifteen state-of-the-art tools to perform systematic annotations and analyses, PhageScope provides annotations on genome completeness, host range, lifestyle information, taxonomy classification, nine types of structural and functional genetic elements, and three types of comparative genomic st

SUBMITTER: Wang RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10767790 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature