Home

Published

March 15, 2024

Bacteriophage genomes in NCBI

Phages are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on the planet. However, our knowledge of them is quite limited. There are currently 29759 phage genomes in the NCBI and this number will continue to grow as researchers produce sequencing data. This website provides an overview of the number of phages and jumbo phages, size, molecule type and host of bacteriophage genomes stored in the NCBI.

Data source

The website uses the monthly dataset published by INPHARED. I used the DateMonthYear_data.tsv, to create all the plots and calculate the number of phages in the database. If you use this dataset, please have a look at their publication.

Updates

At the moment the website is updated manually every month and depends on the INPHARED dataset. I hope to be able to automate this process in the next few months.

Last update 2024-10-24