Mycobacterium phage Alanalda
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| Detailed Information for Phage Alanalda | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Adam Rudner |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Los Altos, CA USA |
| Finding Institution | University of Ottawa |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 37.393428 N, 122.106022 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Found in soil collected from a compost bin that also contained a decomposing Hawk. Alanalda genomic DNA was sequenced on a ONT Minion, R10.4.1 chemistry using rapid barcoding V14. The longest read was 44,780bp with 85% query cover, 95.73% identity to phage QTRlifeCrisis (cluster A1). |
| Naming Notes | Named after Hawkeye from MASH, played by Alan Alda, who is also a keen science advocate and sang on the Free to Be...You and Me album that I listened to growing up. |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | No |
| Genome length (bp) | Unknown |
| Character of genome ends | Unknown |
| Fasta file available? | No |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | Unclustered |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Annotating Institution | Unknown or unassigned |
| Annotation Status | Not sequenced |
| Plaque Notes | Large plaques with turbid ring around edges. |
| Morphotype | Siphoviridae |
| 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 |
| EM Picture | Download |