Phage family classification under Caudoviricetes: A review of current tools using the latest ICTV classification framework.

ABSTRACT: Bacteriophages, which are viruses infecting bacteria, are the most ubiquitous and diverse entities in the biosphere. There is accumulating evidence revealing their important roles in shaping the structure of various microbiomes. Thanks to (viral) metagenomic sequencing, a large number of new bacteriophages have been discovered. However, lacking a standard and automatic virus classification pipeline, the taxonomic characterization of new viruses seriously lag behind the sequencing efforts. In particular, according to the latest version of ICTV, several large phage families in the previous classification system are removed. Therefore, a comprehensive review and comparison of taxonomic classification tools under the new standard are needed to establish the state-of-the-art. In this work, we r

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9800612 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature