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| posted 28 Jun, 2018 12:29
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Not that I am aware.

I think this one should be NKF. good catch Kirk!
Posted in: Functional Annotation → head tail connector synteny in Gordonia cluster DJ
| posted 19 Jun, 2018 14:02
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Hi ARturo,
Any of those are possible— can you post the .dnam5 file and then we'll take a look?

thanks so much!

Welkin
Posted in: Cluster EC Annotation Tips → Tail Assembly Chaperone in KaiHaiDragon
| posted 18 Jun, 2018 12:12
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Cool! I wonder if we can use this one to figure out the boundaries of the others?

I think DNA primase with intein is appropriate here.
Posted in: Functional Annotation → fushigi_draft 52 homing endonuclease + primase
| posted 11 Jun, 2018 21:45
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So at this point, June 2018, we are going to stay with the generic toxin/antitoxin labels for these proteins.
Posted in: Request a new function on the SEA-PHAGES official list → Death on Curing (DOC) toxin/antitoxin in Gordonia terrae cluster DL
| posted 11 Jun, 2018 21:40
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We have no wet bench data for any frameshifts in anything other than the tail assembly chaperones. So while this is cool, we are not going to annotation this with a frameshift between the two pieces.
Posted in: Frameshifts and Introns → New frameshift in an A1 phage?
| posted 11 Jun, 2018 21:39
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see:

https://seaphages.org/forums/topic/4348/
Posted in: Request a new function on the SEA-PHAGES official list → phage replisome organizer
| posted 11 Jun, 2018 19:02
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can you give more information about how exactly a replisome organizer is different from the other functions that we have on the official list that are involved in replication?
Posted in: Request a new function on the SEA-PHAGES official list → phage replisome organizer found in Cluster T; add to Master List?
| posted 07 Jun, 2018 12:28
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As a follow up from Graham:

How long is a piece of string?!
If [a new MPME] is 1 aa different, that is not enough for it to be MPME3. If it is a truncated version of MPME1, that does not make it MPME3. If there is a new MPME, full length with all of the features, and it is ~75% DNA identity to 1 and 2, then that would be 3.
Posted in: Cluster F Annotation Tips → MPMEs--which one?
| posted 05 Jun, 2018 16:28
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doesn't sound to me like you can clearly demonstrate DNA ds break repair. From Dave's post, all of those listed require a partner to actually do the repair.

I vote NKF for now.
Posted in: Request a new function on the SEA-PHAGES official list → DNA double-strand break repair protein
| posted 05 Jun, 2018 16:26
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I guess my questions here is what is the difference between BrnT and RelE, and can HHPred actually distinguish the difference between the two?
Posted in: Request a new function on the SEA-PHAGES official list → Ribonuclease toxin BrnT