Mycobacterium phage Chompy
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| Detailed Information for Phage Chompy | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Sophia Wieborg, Zoe Metker |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Boulder, CO United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 7°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.008559 N, 105.267553 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Soil taken from a small grassy planter area, near a few dry bushes outside of Folsom Field, covered with snow and mulch at time of collection. Soil was somewhat muddy at time of collection. |
| Naming Notes | Named for the phage's large size, and tendency to create web pattern plates easily. |
| 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 | Temperate plaques 1-2 mm in diameter, each with a cloudy halo of roughly 0.5-1 mm and a completely clear inner clearing of 0.5-1mm in diameter. |
| 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 |