Alphaproteobacteria (pro)phages Database

This projects aims to construct interactive website database for all known and publicly available active phages and manually verified and reannotated prophages within Alphaproteobacteria. Alphaproteobacteria as a taxonomy clade is well represented by bacteria inhabiting various environments and thus they are metabolicly diverse. Within, there are phototrophic (i.e. Rhodobacter), endosymbiotic (i.e. Wolbachia), metylothrophic (i.e. Paracoccus) and parasitic (i.e. Rickettsia) bacteria. These are also commonly used in biotechnology like nitrogen-fixing rhyzobia, in biodeterioration – the species degrading and denitrifing polluted soils or molecular biology – Agrobacterium tumefaciens which is able to insert exogenous DNA to plant cells. They are also diverse within the genome structure as the range of genome size is between 140 kb to 9000 kb. The number and sizes of replicons also varies – from none to even 9. Same with %GC content: 27.5 – 71.5%. Once published, the database site link will be attached here. Right know, in Download section you may find raw data that were used to construct the database or has already been published (e.g. (pro)phages infecting Sinorhizobium spp. and Paracoccus spp.)