| Detailed Information for Phage Purplicious | |
| Discovery Information | |
| Isolation Host | Gordonia rubripertincta NRRL B-16540 |
| Found By | Anisha Saxena, Kathryn Ghobrial, Kylie Ye |
| Year Found | 2024 |
| Location Found | Pittsburgh, PA United States |
| Finding Institution | University of Pittsburgh |
| Program | Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science |
| From enriched soil sample? | No |
| Isolation Temperature | 30°C |
| GPS Coordinates | 40.4411 N, 79.9558 W Map |
| Discovery Notes | Anisha Saxena, Kathryn Ghobrial, and Kylie Ye Located near a fence with a line of bushes. The soil on the surface was dry and covered with mulch. However, when dug deeper, soil was a darker brown color, moist, and soft to the touch. Sample was not difficult to filter. |
| Naming Notes | We like the color purple and words that end in "licious." |
| Sequencing Information | |
| Sequencing Complete? | Yes |
| Date Sequencing Completed | Jan 29, 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 | 32 |
| Genome length (bp) | 57561 |
| Character of genome ends | Circularly Permuted |
| GC Content | 65.5% |
| Sequencing Notes | Sequencing contained some host reads. |
| Fasta file available? | Yes: Download fasta file |
| Characterization | |
| Cluster | CP |
| Subcluster | -- |
| Cluster Life Cycle | Unknown |
| Other Cluster Members | |
| Annotating Institution | University of Pittsburgh |
| Annotation Status | Being Annotated (Expected completion by 5/1/2026) |
| Number of Genes | 92 |
| 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 | Archived |
| Pitt Freezer Box# | 214 |
| Pitt Freezer Box Grid# | D2 |