Mycobacterium phage Goat
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| Detailed Information for Phage Goat | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | John Webb, Aahil Merchant |
| Year Found | 2013 |
| Location Found | St. Louis, MO USA |
| Finding Institution | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | Not entered |
| GPS Coordinates | 38.644197 N, 90.298269 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Urban setting. About 10 feet removed from a two-lane road. Under a tree and near a pond. About one foot from water. Near a park. Sample depth was 5 cm. |
| Naming Notes | It is an acronym for "Greatest of All Time". Goat is the minimum character length for phages, which is appreciated when writing its name on microcentrifuge tubes. Also, the word goat is comical. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Sequencing Facility | The McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Lysogeny Notes | It appears to be a lysogenic phage. |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Plaque Notes | The plaques still varied in size even after six rounds of purification. About one in ten is particularly small. There is a very small cloudy outer ring, and the inside of the plaque is clear. |
| Has been Phamerated? | No |
| Publication Info | |
| Uploaded to GenBank? | No |
| GenBank Accession | None yet |
| Refseq Number | None yet |
| Archiving Info | |
| Archiving status | Not in Pitt Archives |
| Available Files | |
| Plaque Picture | Download |
| Restriction Digest Picture | Download |
| EM Picture | Download |
