How to get phage-host association?

[fefe89]

Hello everyone

I was wondering if there is a tool to get the phage-host association from the name of a phage. It would be great even to only get the family or genus of the host.

I have a lot of data since there are from metagenomic sequencing and I can't check them by hand.


Thank you in advance

[thh32]

Surely you should assemble the data, identify and viral DNA by blasting your contigs. Look for contigs with both viral and bacterial DNA. Ensure it isnt just a single bacterial gene in a viral genome and then blast has already told you the viral and bacterial genes present so you can look at the families of the blast results. Dont think there is a specific tool otherwise and especially not for a metagenomic dataset (asssuming your dataset is large to ensure decent coverage).

[thh32]

There is no specirfic tool. I have been looking for a program that will do the same on metagenomic data but had to write a load of code myself to try and work around the issues. May I ask is your data viral enriched or not?