title: Prophinder: a computational tool for prophage prediction in prokaryotic genomes.
abstract: Prophinder is a prophage prediction tool coupled with a prediction database, a web server and web service. Predicted prophages will help to fill the gaps in the current sparse phage sequence space, which should cover an estimated 100 million species. Systematic and reliable predictions will enable further studies of prophages contribution to the bacteriophage gene pool and to better understand gene shuffling between prophages and phages infecting the same host.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Softare is available at http://aclame.ulb.ac.be/prophinder
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux (BiGRe), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. gipsi@scmbb.ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: Gipsi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lima-Mendez
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van Helden
authors.forename: Ariane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toussaint
authors.forename: Raphaël
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Leplae
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000502:physiology*; D016679:Genome, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells / Q000502:physiology* / Q000821:virology; D039002:Prophages / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral