| Detailed Information for Phage GoingMerry |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224 |
| Found By | IJournette,YBhardwaj,NDorafshani, An |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Amherst, MA United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 42.360545 N, 72.488071 E Map |
| Discovery Notes | The soil was completely dry and loose with bark and loose blades of grass within the collected sample. The soil was dark in color, nearly appearing black in shade. |
| Naming Notes | GoingMerry is a cute name that shows determination while still maintaining happiness and care for each other, so we decided this for the name of out phage since this is how we felt getting it. |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Jan 16, 2026 |
| Sequencing Facility | Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute |
| Shotgun Sequencing Method | Illumina |
| Sequencer Used | Illumina NextSeq 1000 |
| Read Type | Single-end reads |
| Read Length | 100 bp |
| Approximate Shotgun Coverage | 55 |
| Genome length (bp) | 41793 |
| Character of genome ends | Circularly Permuted |
| GC Content | 63.4% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | EA |
| Subcluster | EA1 |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 5/1/2026) |
| Plaque Notes | The phage type appears larger with a wide light halo and tends to cluster and overlap, with a few of the phages being smaller with a less prominent halo. Both types are circular in shape. The plaque size appears to be between 3mm and 1mm in diameter. |
| Number of Genes | 64 |
| Number of tRNAs | 0 |
| Number of tmRNAs | 0 |
| Has been Phamerated? | Yes |
| Gene List |
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| 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 |
