| Abstrakt: | Bacteriophages are viral particles that infect and replicate inside bacterial organisms.
Since they are specific to a particular strain of bacteria, advances in their research
could lead to novel means of targeted treatment without adverse effects on natural
microbiome in patient’s body. Moreover, this treatment could be effective against
bacterial strains with antibiotic resistance. We consider as one of the main bottlenecks
of bacteriophage research the inability to cultivate some of the phages due to missing
information about their hosts and insufficient description of their genes. We aim to
address this issue with our bioinformatics pipeline which can predict bacteriophage
hosts from genomic sequence and which can give us additional information about gene
importance for their function.
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