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Dann Turner1, Evelien M Adriaenssens2, Igor Tolstoy3
1Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom.
PHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.)
|January 27, 2022
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All sequencing projects of bacteriophages (phages) should seek to report an accurate and comprehensive annotation of their genomes. This article defines 14 questions for those new to phage genomics that should be addressed before submitting a genome sequence to the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration or writing a publication.
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