| Detailed Information for Phage Moby |
| Discovery Information |
| Isolation Host | Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 |
| Found By | Sharoné van Eck |
| Year Found | 2025 |
| Location Found | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Finding Institution | TASK South Africa |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | Yes |
| Isolation Temperature | 37°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 18.573931 S, 33.901223 E Map |
| Discovery Notes | Obtained soil sample from my childhood garden that was collected by my father, Christiaan van Eck. The soil surrounds rose bushes as well as a very old massive Strelitzia reginae plantation. |
| Naming Notes | Initial growth after isolation took on the shape of a "whale". |
| Sequencing Information |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Aug 11, 2025 |
| 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 | 1440 |
| Genome length (bp) | 153286 |
| Character of genome ends | Circularly Permuted |
| GC Content | 64.6% |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization |
| Cluster | C |
| Subcluster | C1 |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Lytic |
| Other Cluster Members |
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| Annotating Institution | TASK South Africa |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 2/11/2026) |
| Plaque Notes | Small and spherical. |
| Number of Genes | 228 |
| Number of tRNAs | 34 |
| Number of tmRNAs | 1 |
| 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 |
| EM Picture | Download |
