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SUBMITTER: Villarroel J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4885074 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Villarroel Julia J Kleinheinz Kortine Annina KA Jurtz Vanessa Isabell VI Zschach Henrike H Lund Ole O Nielsen Morten M Larsen Mette Voldby MV
Viruses 20160504 5
The current dramatic increase of antibiotic resistant bacteria has revitalised the interest in bacteriophages as alternative antibacterial treatment. Meanwhile, the development of bioinformatics methods for analysing genomic data places high-throughput approaches for phage characterization within reach. Here, we present HostPhinder, a tool aimed at predicting the bacterial host of phages by examining the phage genome sequence. Using a reference database of 2196 phages with known hosts, HostPhind ...[more]