Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Research Scientist, Decrypting the viral world via #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own.
Sep 5, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Time for a thread about our new tool iPHoP for integrated Phage-Host Prediction (Note: it technically also works for archaeoviruses, but phages worked best for the acronym ^^). So what is iPHoP, why does it exist, and what/who is it for ?
Starting from the last question
iPHoP may be useful to you if: you are looking to predict host taxonomy at the ~ family/genus rank for novel phages
iPHoP will likely *not* be useful if: you need results super quickly or need high-resolution (species/strain) host prediction