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VIBES: A Workflow for Annotating and Visualizing Viral Sequences Integrated into Bacterial Genomes.
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.17.562434
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VIBES: A Workflow for Annotating and Visualizing Viral Sequences Integrated into Bacterial Genomes - PubMed
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Many bacteriophages integrate their genomes into the bacterial chromosome and become prophages. Prophages may substantially burden or benefit host bacteria fitness, acting in some cases as parasites and in others as mutualists, and have been demonstra …