Recent advances in viral metagenomics have enabled the rapid discovery of an
unprecedented catalogue of phages in numerous environments, from the human gut to the …

We present an extension of the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS)
standard for reporting sequences of uncultivated virus genomes. Minimum Information about …

Bacteriophage (phage) taxonomy has been in flux since its inception over four decades ago.
Genome sequencing has put pressure on the classification system and recent years have …

Microbiomes from every environment contain a myriad of uncultivated archaeal and
bacterial viruses, but studying these viruses is hampered by the lack of a universal, scalable …

Background: With advances in sequencing technology and decreasing costs, the number of
phage genomes that have been sequenced has increased markedly in the past decade …

The gut microbiome profoundly affects human health and disease, and their infecting viruses
are likely as important, but often missed because of reference database limitations. Here, we …

ViPTree is a web server provided through GenomeNet to generate viral proteomic trees for
classification of viruses based on genome-wide similarities. Users can upload viral genomes …

The number and diversity of viral sequences that are identified in metagenomic data far
exceeds that of experimentally characterized virus isolates. In a recent workshop, a panel of …

Ocean microbes drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale. However, this cycling is
constrained by viruses that affect community composition, metabolic activity, and …

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, but challenges in detecting,
isolating, and classifying unknown viruses have prevented exhaustive surveys of the global …