Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on January 30, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(6):863-865; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn043
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Prophinder: a computational tool for prophage prediction in prokaryotic genomes
Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux (BiGRe), Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Summary: Prophinder is a prophage prediction tool coupled with a prediction database, a web server and web service. Predicted prophages will help to fill the gaps in the current sparse phage sequence space, which should cover an estimated 100 million species. Systematic and reliable predictions will enable further studies of prophages contribution to the bacteriophage gene pool and to better understand gene shuffling between prophages and phages infecting the same host.
Availability: Softare is available at http://aclame.ulb.ac.be/prophinder
Contact: gipsi{at}scmbb.ulb.ac.be
Supplementary information: Supplementary data is available on http://aclame.ulb.ac.be/Tools/Prophinder/evaluations_table.html.
Associate Editor: Alfonso Valencia
Received on December 10, 2007; revised on January 8, 2008; accepted on January 26, 2008
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