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SMART Function Investigations
As SMART proceeds through their functional assignment investigations, they will share how and what they find, and post it here. Use these investigations to develop your investigations in your classrooms for deeper understanding of phage biology.
3 7 Jun 3, 2025
1:18 PM
Choosing Start Sites
Questions about tricky-to-call start sites.
17 75 Jun 3, 2025
12:08 PM
tRNAs
Questions about properly searching for and calling tRNAs.
26 103 Sep 30, 2024
7:37 AM
Functional Annotation
Questions about whether or not to call functions, or precisely how to call them.
155 572 May 13, 2025
11:06 AM
Gene or not a Gene
Questions about whether or not to call or delete certain genes.
36 133 Feb 4, 2025
1:09 AM
Frameshifts and Introns
This forum is for asking questions about annotatiing frameshifts in the tail assembly chaperone genes and intron boundaries in Cluster J phages.
25 109 Feb 28, 2024
10:14 AM
Request a new function on the SEA-PHAGES official list
56 195 May 22, 2025
4:01 PM
Notes and Final Files
Questions about required notes in DNA Master and submitting final annotation files.
23 98 Jan 20, 2025
7:14 PM
How to Pass Preliminary Annotation Review
2 6 May 1, 2023
9:14 AM
HHpred
Questions about how to use or interpret results from HHpred.
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Topics Posts Views Last post
Tricky Start position decision: Need 2nd Opinion; Two overlapping Genes …
3 26 May 6, 2020
5:59 PM
General Question on RBS scores and start selection
4 36 May 4, 2020
7:17 AM
Gene or not a gene? MrMiyagi
3 21 May 3, 2020
11:07 PM
Tail Terminator in Cluster EE
3 20 May 1, 2020
4:52 PM
Tricky Start position decision
5 25 Apr 26, 2020
4:40 PM
Gene Numbering Questions and More: Phage SilentRX (UNK)
8 261 Apr 6, 2020
10:00 PM
GeneMark and G rubripertincta
4 253 Mar 21, 2020
4:11 PM
Assembly
1 217 Feb 26, 2020
12:58 PM
Addressing sequencing notes
2 219 Feb 5, 2020
2:15 PM
space for a promoter when changing direction?
2 233 Oct 15, 2019
11:42 AM
BLAST score algorithm
1 15 Mar 21, 2019
11:25 AM
Annotations of Microbacterium foliorum
4 286 Mar 14, 2019
9:57 AM
Phage hits not showing in NCBI but 100% to Gordonia …
4 234 Feb 5, 2019
3:00 PM
Submission error
2 225 May 30, 2018
1:26 PM
Best Gordonia model for GeneMark
2 225 Feb 21, 2018
11:14 AM
New HHPred web site
9 302 Nov 6, 2017
11:54 PM
Locating Terminase Gene pages: 1 2
11 519 Mar 2, 2016
5:12 PM
Arthrobacter Annotations
2 235 Jan 27, 2016
3:50 PM

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