Curated methods for bacteriophage work — from sample collection to sequencing and bioinformatics.
20 protocols found.
Bacteriophages are viruses that are particularly reliant on their bacterial hosts’ metabolic activity to copy their genetic material and produce the proteins…
What is phage typing? Phage typing is a quick and low-cost phenotypic method that uses bacteriophage specificity to detect and identify single…
Fish plays a vital role in the human diet, and consumption per capita is increasing; however, the expansion of industry and agriculture…
Aquaculture, the culture of all types of aquatic animals and plants in fresh, brackish, and marine water environments, is one of the…
Luria-Bertani is the most preferred media to be used in phage research. This protocol describes how to make 1 L of Luria-Bertani…
Procedure Collect crude specimens of approximately 50 g or 100mls of any targeted sample in a sterile sample collection tube (100…
Extracting the DNA from a bacteriophage is essential in order to study its genetic makeup and identify the genes that encode…
Principle of Phage Plaque Assay When a suspension of an infective phage (e.g. T4 phage) is spread over the lawn of susceptible…