SEA PHAGES Class submits genome sequence
The SEA PHAGES class, led by instructors Vassie Ware and Margaret Kenna, have once again submitted a genome sequence for their work on mycobacteriophages. SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) is a two-semester, discovery-based undergraduate research course that begins with simple digging in the soil to find new viruses, but progresses through a variety of microbiology techniques and eventually to complex genome annotation and bioinformatic analyses. SEA-PHAGES is jointly administered by Graham Hatfull’s group at the University of Pittsburgh and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education division.
Caratenuto RA, III, Ciabattoni GO, DesGranges NJ, Drost CL, Gao L, Gipson B, Kahler NC, Kirven NA, Melehani JC, Patel K, Rokes AB, Seth RA, West MC, Alhout AA, Akoto FF, Capogna N, Cudkevich N, Graham LH, Grapel MS, Haleem MM, Korenberg JB, Lichak BP, McKinley LN, Mendello KR, Murphy CE, Pyfer LM, Ramirez WA, Reisner JR, Swope RH, Thoonkuzhy MJ, Vargas LA, Veliz CA, Volpe KR, Zhang KD, Faltine-Gonzalez DZ, Zuilkoski CM, Mageeney CM, Mohammed HT, Kenna MA, Ware VC. 2019. Genome sequences of six cluster N mycobacteriophages, Kevin1, Nenae, Parmesanjohn, ShrimpFriedEgg, Smurph, and SpongeBob isolated on M. smegmatis mc2155. Microbiol Resour Announc 8:e00399-19.
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