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What is DOGEMS?
Deconvolution Of Genomes after En Masse Sequencing, or DOGEMS (DAH-jums), is an approach to sequencing phages where individually isolated phage DNA samples are deliberately mixed before preparing libraries. The main reasons to do so are to reduce library …
Gene Content Similarity and Dissimilarity
Last year, one of the grad students in the Hatfull lab, Travis Mavrich, was the lead author on a paper in Nature Microbiology that explored the extent to which horizontal gene transfer and mosaicism …
I'm very excited to announce that in the next few weeks, we'll be launching the new Actinobacter phage database which will merge the existing Myco, Arthro, and Strepto DBs as well as have the ability to hold information about any …
I've gotten a few questions recently about doing phage genome sequencing on Illumina sequencers, and we ourselves have been pumping genomes through our Illumina MiSeq and loving it. But I wanted to issue a word of caution to anyone considering …