title: PhagesDB: the actinobacteriophage database.
abstract: The Actinobacteriophage Database (PhagesDB) is a comprehensive, interactive, database-backed website that collects and shares information related to the discovery, characterization and genomics of viruses that infect Actinobacterial hosts. To date, more than 8000 bacteriophages-including over 1600 with sequenced genomes-have been entered into the database. PhagesDB plays a crucial role in organizing the discoveries of phage biologists around the world-including students in the SEA-PHAGES program-and has been cited in over 50 peer-reviewed articles.
  
  
  
  http://phagesdb.org/.
  
  
  
  gfh@pitt.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: Graham F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Hatfull
mesh_terms: D039903:Actinobacteria / Q000821:virology*; D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016679:Genome, Viral; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*