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      PHAST: A Fast Phage Search Tool

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          PHAge Search Tool (PHAST) is a web server designed to rapidly and accurately identify, annotate and graphically display prophage sequences within bacterial genomes or plasmids. It accepts either raw DNA sequence data or partially annotated GenBank formatted data and rapidly performs a number of database comparisons as well as phage ‘cornerstone’ feature identification steps to locate, annotate and display prophage sequences and prophage features. Relative to other prophage identification tools, PHAST is up to 40 times faster and up to 15% more sensitive. It is also able to process and annotate both raw DNA sequence data and Genbank files, provide richly annotated tables on prophage features and prophage ‘quality’ and distinguish between intact and incomplete prophage. PHAST also generates downloadable, high quality, interactive graphics that display all identified prophage components in both circular and linear genomic views. PHAST is available at ( http://phast.wishartlab.com).

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                Journal
                Nucleic Acids Res
                nar
                nar
                Nucleic Acids Research
                Oxford University Press
                0305-1048
                1362-4962
                1 July 2011
                1 July 2011
                14 June 2011
                14 June 2011
                : 39
                : Web Server issue , Web Server issue
                : W347-W352
                Affiliations
                1Department of Biological Sciences, 2Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta and 3National Research Council, National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E8
                Author notes
                *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +780 492 0383; Fax: +780 492 5305; Email: david.wishart@ 123456ualberta.ca
                Article
                gkr485
                10.1093/nar/gkr485
                3125810
                21672955
                c11082e2-364e-44d2-8d43-84e4f81dcceb
                © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Oxford University Press.

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                : 28 February 2011
                : 21 April 2011
                : 26 May 2011
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