MetaPhinder-Identifying Bacteriophage Sequences in Metagenomic Data Sets.
Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entity on the planet, but at the same time do not account for much of the genetic material isolated from most environments due to their small genome sizes. They also show great genetic diversity and mosaic genomes making it challenging to analyze and understand them. Here we present MetaPhinder, a method to identify assembled genomic fragments (i.e.contigs) of phage origin in metagenomic data sets. The method is based on a comparison to a database of whole genome bacteriophage sequences, integrating hits to multiple genomes to accomodate for the mosaic genome structure of many bacteriophages. The method is demonstrated to out-perform both BLAST methods based on single hits and methods based on k-mer comparisons. MetaPhinder is available as a web service at the Center for Genomic Epidemiology https://cge.cbs.dtu.dk/services/MetaPhinder/, while the source code can be downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/genomicepidemiology/metaphinder or https://github.com/vanessajurtz/MetaPhinder.
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Vanessa Isabell
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4452-6605
VI
Jurtz
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Julia
J
Villarroel
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Ole
O
Lund
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Mette
M
Voldby Larsen
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Morten
M
Nielsen
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