| URL: | https://phagescope.deepomics.org |
| Full name: | PhageScope database |
| Description: | PhageScope is an online bacteriophage database that offers comprehensive annotations, including completeness assessment, phenotype annotation, taxonomic annotation, structural annotation, functional annotation, and genome comparison.PhageScope incorporates automatic analysis and interactive visualization for both curated and customized data. |
| Year founded: | 2023 |
| Last update: | 2024-01 |
| Version: | v1.0 |
| Accessibility: |
Accessible
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| Country/Region: | China |
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| Major species: |
NA
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| University/Institution: | City University of Hong Kong |
| Address: | 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong |
| City: | Hong Kong |
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| Country/Region: | China |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | Shuo Yang |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | syang58-c@my.cityu.edu.hk |
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PhageScope: a well-annotated bacteriophage database with automatic analyses and visualizations. [PMID: 37904614]
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 studies for curated phages. Additionally, PhageScope incorporates automatic analyses and visualizations for curated and customized phages, serving as an efficient platform for phage study. |