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New pre-print with @DovStekelLab, Martha Clokie, Andrew millard and others! We've written a script for the automatic retrieval of bacteriophage genomes from Genbank, and provide useful tools for comparative genomic analysis (1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

we (Ryan Cook ) updated the list of phage genomes we can find in Genbank up to end of June. millardlab.org/bioinformatics… .with scripts how here github.com/RyanCook94/inp…

Our work on prophages in the infant gut is out!

The first megaphage genome from the marine environment? We have reconstructed an abundant, extremely large (657kb) phage genome from marine water sample, analysed it and discovered even more megaphage signs in the TARA oceans dataset. Read all about it here!

#Virus #taxonomy update #2021 Thanks @EvelienAdri & the #ICTV #Bacterial and #Archaeal #Viruses subcommittee(s) for their hard work as volunteers. #publication in Archives of #virology : bit.ly/3y8Wrf3

Our work on marine megaphages is up! We have reconstructed megaphage genome, found its relatives and tracked them across the Seven Seas. All this with a help of Andrew millard, @CyanoNey, Ryan Cook, Mike Jones, William Wilson and David Scanlan. nature.com/articles/s4370…

One of the reasons I like starting my day early. First constellation spotted this autumn during my morning travel to the uni (Coventry, UK, low quality as captured with phone).

through CLIMB-BIG-DATA I will be running a phage annotation and genomic comparison workshop later in the year (probably april). Poll below, to help us to decide on logistics if you are interested

while visiting Dwayne Roach lab and some sunshine, Ryan Cook has updated complete phage genomes we can find in Genbank upto Jan1 2022. We have also reannotated all phage genomes using PHROGs and incorporated in INPHARED that can be downloaded. millardlab.org/bioinformatics…

One of our laboratory phages with as many as nine(!) different tail spikes (containing depolymerase enzymes). Due to their sheer number they create this weird bush or tree-like structure at the end. Photo done by Dr Saskia Bakker from University of Warwick.

So happy that Amy Godfrey will be giving a talk at #Microbio22 🎉… She will be giving a talk on bacterial nanosyringes today at 12:15, be sure to check it!!

Busy day full of polymer science ahead! #GelPermeationCelebration2022 conference followed by the webinar, don't forget to tune in! #chemtwitter #polymerchem #AnywhereChem

Learn about GP3 project, tackling Pasteurella infection of salmon with phages, led by Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén .With Bent Petersen, myself, Martha Clokie , and multiple others, including Slawomir Michniewski who just joined the team pasteurella.dk bpetersen.dk/blog youtube.com/watch?v=uODSYS…

We (Ryan Cook ) updated the number of complete phage genomes we can find Genbank .Passing 22 K. millardlab.org/bioinformatics…

Latest from my lab looking at a so called antrax “cross over”strain (B. cereus G9241). Great work by a superb team, Warwick Med School Tom Brooker, Grace Taylor Joyce, Alexia Hapeshi and Shathviga Manoharan. All started off at Bath Uni by Sara. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Could you please with any graduating BSc or MSc students that may be interested in working with lysogenic @phages and their role in adaptation and evolution of chronic bacterial lung infections.

Genome Sequence of SN1, a Bacteriophage That Infects Sphaerotilus natans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Interesting! 2 bacteria that belong to 2 different classes. Gammaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria. I wonder what receptor they share. Sylvain Moineau journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mr…

5 undergrads with zero phage experience. 10 weeks later 30+ isolates , 27 phage genomes + TEM images for all, 7 phage with one steps experiments... not to shabby. under expert guidance of Steven Hooton Slawomir Michniewski

As ever, this month's files all on Github. Great to see the updated taxonomy available too 👀 #phages

with Ryan Cook , we have updated complete genomes we can find Genbank and made them available with stats etc millardlab.org/phage-genomes-…