Motley Crew: Overview of the Currently Available Phage Diversity.

ABSTRACT: The first complete genome that was sequenced at the beginning of the sequencing era was that of a phage, since then researchers throughout the world have been steadily describing and publishing genomes from a wide array of phages, uncovering the secrets of the most abundant and diverse biological entities known to man. Currently, we are experiencing an unprecedented rate of novel bacteriophage discovery, which can be seen from the fact that the amount of complete bacteriophage genome entries in public sequence repositories has more than doubled in the past 3 years and is steadily growing without showing any sign of slowing down. The amount of publicly available phage genome-related data can be overwhelming and has been summarized in literature before but quickly becomes out of date. Thus,

SUBMITTER: Zrelovs N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7658105 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature