PhageFinder v2.1 – Identify Prophage Regions within Bacterial Genomes

PhageFinder v2.1

:: DESCRIPTION

Phage_Finder, a heuristic computer program, was created to identify prophage regions in completed bacterial genomes. Using a test dataset of 42 bacterial genomes whose prophages have been manually identified, Phage_Finder found 91% of the regions, resulting in 7% false positive and 9% false negative prophages. A search of 302 complete bacterial genomes predicted 403 putative prophage regions, accounting for 2.7% of the total bacterial DNA. Analysis of the 285 putative attachment sites revealed tRNAs are targets for integration slightly more frequently (33%) than intergenic (31%) or intragenic (28%) regions, while tmRNAs were targeted in 8% of the regions. The most popular tRNA targets were Arg, Leu, Ser and Thr. Mapping of the insertion point on a consensus tRNA molecule revealed novel insertion points on the 5′ side of the D loop, the 3′ side of the anticodon loop and the anticodon. A novel method of constructing phylogenetic trees of phages and prophages was developed based on the mean of the BLAST score ratio (BSR) of the phage/prophage proteomes.

::DEVELOPER

Dr. Derrick E. Fouts at J. Craig Venter Institute

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

:: DOWNLOAD

PhageFinder

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Derrick E. Fouts
Phage_Finder: Automated identification and classification of prophage regions in complete bacterial genome sequences
Nucl. Acids Res. (2006) 34 (20): 5839-5851.doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl732