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All posts created by debbie

| posted 19 Nov, 2021 17:22
Thanks Chris!
Posted in: tRNAsTomas tRNA error
| posted 19 Nov, 2021 16:11
Lee,
Great forum post.
Thanks for having a complete set of data.
You are correct that the checker message is confusing. Thanks for reviewing. I think that this tRNA is legit and the coordinates are 99206-99276, tRNA-Gln(gat). There is no way around this in the checker and I am will contact Christian to push this one through. Sometimes, you may receive additional error message, but just ignore. it is ready to go in.
Best,
debbie
Posted in: tRNAsTomas tRNA error
| posted 12 Nov, 2021 14:34
Hi Amanda,
Kyle's answer reflects our experiences too. So while I am not sure the details for how best to get phage yields from any of these hosts, figuring that out is legit. The caveat, I think, would be if any are 'ready' for use in the student lab. For us the experience is that we don't have enough experience with any of them to know what best practice is. Denise Monti has used Corynebacterium in the classroom, so you might want to ask her.
Good Luck!
debbie
Posted in: Phage Discovery/IsolationNew hosts - human microbiome
| posted 10 Nov, 2021 20:53
HI!
Search the Approved Funnction list for "HIT domain" and you will find "histidine triad nucleotide binding protein" as a good choice for what to call this protein.
Make sense?
Thanks for the inquiry,
debbie
Posted in: Cluster F Annotation TipsHIT Family Protein
| posted 03 Nov, 2021 22:49
Hi Jess,
Cool genome. I can't answer your question out of context of the entire genome. Tell me if yo agree with my interpretations.
Here is what I see so far, you have a small genome phage that is likely a podoviridae. You have only provided one virion particle. do you have more. If not can you get more particles photographed. Also, I note that you have a thumbnail uploaded - which is great!!!, but not a 'raw' data file uploaded. That file can be very helpful, so please upload it.

Because it is a podo, we haven't thought very much about the structures at the portal. Could the upper collar be the portal?

Your phage is like phi29, S. aureus phage P68 and maybe Streptococcus phage C1. Here is a lovely paper about the structure of the Staph aureus phage.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw7414

I don't think there is anything difficult about this phage, but we don't have a good handle on what to call the structural pieces that are identified. If you could find the papers about phi29 and maybe even C1, we could put the pieces together and identify the best names for the proteins.

Maybe we could set up a time to talk.
Cool beans!
debbie
Posted in: Functional AnnotationUpper and lower collar proteins
| posted 01 Nov, 2021 20:56
Hi Chris,
I want this to slip, and i think that it has to slip, BUT it does not fit any published programmed ribosomal slippages to date. I would leave it as 2 separate orfs. But if someone want to talk me into calling it, I am all ears!
debbie
Posted in: Frameshifts and IntronsTAC frameshift in singleton
| posted 01 Nov, 2021 01:06
Sorry for the delay in this response. I think that the hits to levanase and hydrolase suggest that this could be a minor tail protein. It is not in a canonical location so this gets a bit tricky to call. Howver, becsuse it is very similar to BENtherdunthat_gp35 that is in a more canonical space makes me think that it could indeed be a minor tail.
Posted in: Functional AnnotationMinor tail protein in the far left arm of CS3 phages?
| posted 14 Oct, 2021 20:12
Amanda,
HI! Sorry for the delay in my response too!
Claire and the PECAAN folks purposely made the PECAAN output meet the QC requirements for each gene of an annotation. So i don't think that any modifications are needed from the PECAAN output.
Use the cover sheet to describe what you have done and all should work out.
debbie
Posted in: Notes and Final FilesQuestion about notes template
| posted 17 Sep, 2021 16:24
Hi all,
My last posts were misguided. It was the license problem. GeneMark is back on line!
debbie
Posted in: DNA MasterAuto-annotation fix for fall 2017 and later
| posted 16 Sep, 2021 21:12
I just talked to Christian and he suggested the simplest explanation is the Preference Settings in the Secure Connections panel are not set properly. See the attached picture for what they should look like.
Going forward, would you let me know if you still have problems what DNA master build number you are using. (The latest build that i have is 2704.) Thanks!
Posted in: DNA MasterAuto-annotation fix for fall 2017 and later