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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2018

PhageWeb - Web Interface for Rapid Identification and Characterization of Prophages in Bacterial Genomes.

Ailton Lopes de Sousa, Dener Maués, Amália Lobato, Edian F Franco, Kenny Pinheiro, Fabrício Araújo, Yan Pantoja, Artur Luiz da Costa da Silva, Jefferson Morais, Rommel T J Ramos

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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10 authors.

Ailton Lopes de SousaInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Dener MauésInstitute of Exact and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Amália LobatoInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Edian F FrancoInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Kenny PinheiroInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Fabrício AraújoInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Yan PantojaInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Artur Luiz da Costa da SilvaInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Jefferson MoraisInstitute of Exact and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.
Rommel T J RamosInstitute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para, Belém, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study developed a computational tool with a graphical interface and a web-service that allows the identification of phage regions through homology search and gene clustering. It uses G+C content variation evaluation and tRNA prediction sites as evidence to reinforce the presence of prophages in indeterminate regions. Also, it performs the functional characterization of the prophages regions through data integration of biological databases. The performance of PhageWeb was compared to other available tools (PHASTER, Prophinder, and PhiSpy) using Sensitivity (Sn) and Positive Predictive Value (PPV) tests. As a reference for the tests, more than 80 manually annotated genomes were used. In the PhageWeb analysis, the Sn index was 86.1% and the PPV was approximately 87%, while the second best tool presented Sn and PPV values of 83.3 and 86.5%, respectively. These numbers allowed us to observe a greater precision in the regions identified by PhageWeb while compared to other prediction tools submitted to the same tests. Additionally, PhageWeb was much faster than the other computational alternatives, decreasing the processing time to approximately one-ninth of the time required by the second best software. PhageWeb is freely available at http://computationalbiology.ufpa.br/phageweb.

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bacterial genomecharacterizationclusteringphageprophageweb interfaceweb service

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PMID30619469
PMCPMC6305541

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