Monthly Archives: April 2012

And back to the lab!

Posted on April 30, 2012 by bwunder1

After 8 weeks of annotating our dear little Manatee’s genome and working incessantly on our computers we finally get to welcome back our beloved wet lab! Don’t get me wrong, I thought annotating the genome was an amazing experience and … Continue reading →

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Phorever Phage Hunters

Posted on April 28, 2012 by jilliantse

Although this semester of Phage Lab we had to deviate from the exciting and hands-on aspect of phage hunting, we still learned so much about another aspect of phage research. The purpose of the first half of this semester was … Continue reading →

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How to Annotate a Genome

Posted on April 28, 2012 by benszatanek

Second semester in Phage Hunting has been completely different from the fall. Last semester, we were in a standard biology lab every class, performing titer assays and streaks to isolate our own unique phage. I became the proud parent of … Continue reading →

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There and Back Again: A Phage’s Tale

Posted on April 17, 2012 by jellyfishrock

by Eleni Padden On my very first day of college, I shuffled timidly into a lab room with absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. As I glanced around and tried to size up my fellow classmates, I … Continue reading →

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Dear Brutus,

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Andrea

by Andrea Carrassi It is my first semester in Phage Hunting, and I am already loving the challenges that we are faced with as a group. I have become fluent in terms such as HHPred, coding potential, BlastHits, Glimmer, Genemark, … Continue reading →

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Late to the Phage Party

Posted on April 8, 2012 by suhl1

By Skyler Uhl Unlike most of my fellow classmates, I have yet to isolate a phage of my own.  I was not in  Phage Hunting I last semester, so I was not able to join everyone else in their quest … Continue reading →

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Bioinformatics…Round 2

Posted on April 7, 2012 by alannahlejeune

You’d think that after months of searching for the best possible starts and stops of genes, blasting base pair sequences, and hhpred-ing protein sequences, two things would occur: 1) We’d know everything there is to know about Manatee’s genome and … Continue reading →

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Design My Own Experiment…Say WHAT?!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by roboyle1

After countless Blast hits, HHpred searches, SD scores, and Phamerator visits, the genome of Manatee has finally been completely annotated by the JHU Phage Hunters! Hold for applause… Now what do we do you may ask? Simply stated, we design … Continue reading →

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