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Live Phage Stats
Sequenced Phages
1
618
3
26
54
842
760
2602
57
73
1
397
1
2
Total Phages
28063
Found in 2025
22
Found in 2024
2853
Found in 2023
2706
Finished Genomes
5437
Available Fasta Files
5437
Phamerated
5411
# Phams
32871
In GenBank
4723
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Microbacterium Phage Diversity Click to read our 2020 paper about 116 Microbacterium phages in PLOS ONE. -
Phaging War Read our recent paper in Nature Microbiology about how temperate phages can act as defenders of their lysogenic bacterial realms. -
Like phages? Like quality education? The SEA-PHAGES program gives undergraduates a real, discovery-based research experience in early college with the goal of creating lifelong scientists. -
A continuum of diversity Read our recent paper published in eLIFE, which shares discoveries about 627 mycobacteriophages made by over 2600 undergraduate authors. -
A paper describing the scientific and educational success of the HHMI SEA-PHAGES program has been published in mBio. -
Beyond Smeg Protocol adjustments for several alternative hosts are now available. Click for more. -
Phage Hunters: Don't forget to include valid GPS coordinates when submitting your phage so it will appear on our GPS map. 
Phagehunting in South Africa
Teaching Assistants preparing for the 2013 K-RITH Mycobacterial Genetics Course at University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Welcome to the Actinobacteriophage Database at PhagesDB.org, an interactive site that collects and shares information related to the discovery, characterization, and genomics of phages that infect bacterial hosts within the phylum Actinobacteria.
Dan Russell
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Feb 1, 2024
What is DOGEMS?
Deconvolution Of Genomes after En Masse Sequencing, or DOGEMS (DAH-jums), is an approach to sequencing phages where individually …
Dan Russell
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Jan 23, 2018
Gene Content Similarity and Dissimilarity
Last year, one of the grad students in the Hatfull lab, Travis Mavrich, was the lead …
Dan Russell
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May 8, 2015
I'm very excited to announce that in the next few weeks, we'll be launching the new Actinobacter phage database which …