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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McNair, Katelyn
• Aziz, Ramy Karam
• Pusch, Gordon D
• Overbeek, Ross
• Dutilh, Bas E
• Edwards, Robert

Titel

Phage Genome Annotation Using the RAST Pipeline

Ist Teil von

• Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2018, Vol.1681, p.231

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Phages are complex biomolecular machineries that have to survive in a bacterial world. Phage genomes show many adaptations to their lifestyle such as shorter genes, reduced capacity for redundant DNA sequences, and the inclusion of tRNAs in their genomes. In addition, phages are not free-living, they require a host for replication and survival. These unique adaptations provide challenges for the bioinformatics analysis of phage genomes. In particular, ORF calling, genome annotation, noncoding RNA (ncRNA) identification, and the identification of transposons and insertions are all complicated in phage genome analysis. We provide a road map through the phage genome annotation pipeline, and discuss the challenges and solutions for phage genome annotation as we have implemented in the rapid annotation using subsystems (RAST) pipeline.