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PHAGE ISOLATION and PURIFICATION

Isolate and plaque purify phage
Grow up to get ~ 10^12 phage and harvest the lysate
PEG precipitate to concentrate the phage
Isolate the phage particles using CsCl (equilibrium or step gradient)
Pull the phage band and dialyze against a buffer
Extract the phage DNA

CONSTRUCT A CLONE LIBRARY

Do you have <100 ng DNA or potentially problematic regions of DNA (lethal genes or modified bases)?
If yes, then proceed with LASL / RASLs library construction
If no (unlikely with phage genomes), then proceed with conventional library construction

SEQUENCING

Sequence random clones to get 4-10 fold coverage

ASSEMBLY

Software for sequence evaluation and assembly
Raw sequence data to a first assembly
Closing gaps between your assembled contigs
Finding the ends

POST-ASSEMBLY ANALYSES

ORF finding
BLASTing the ORFs
Identifying ORFs by synteny
tRNA
Repeats
Codon Bias
Dinucleotide analysis
Comparative genomics analyses
Placement on the Phage Proteomic Tree

*Guide Home* Phage isolation and purification Clone library construction Sequencing Assembly Post-assembly analyses	The Guide to Phage Genomics: Isolation, Purification, Cloning, Sequencing, Assembling, Annotating and Analyzing Phage Genomes
	PHAGE ISOLATION and PURIFICATION Isolate and plaque purify phage Grow up to get ~ 10^12 phage and harvest the lysate PEG precipitate to concentrate the phage Isolate the phage particles using CsCl (equilibrium or step gradient) Pull the phage band and dialyze against a buffer Extract the phage DNA CONSTRUCT A CLONE LIBRARY Do you have <100 ng DNA or potentially problematic regions of DNA (lethal genes or modified bases)? If yes, then proceed with LASL / RASLs library construction If no (unlikely with phage genomes), then proceed with conventional library construction SEQUENCING Sequence random clones to get 4-10 fold coverage ASSEMBLY Software for sequence evaluation and assembly Raw sequence data to a first assembly Closing gaps between your assembled contigs Finding the ends POST-ASSEMBLY ANALYSES ORF finding BLASTing the ORFs Identifying ORFs by synteny tRNA Repeats Codon Bias Dinucleotide analysis Comparative genomics analyses Placement on the Phage Proteomic Tree

Page created: February 20, 2003 Last modified: February 24, 2003 For questions or comments, e-mail Forest Rohwer forest@sunstroke.sdsu.edu or Matt Sullivan mbsulli@mit.edu