WIsH: who is the host? Predicting prokaryotic hosts from metagenomic phage contigs

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Summary WIsH predicts prokaryotic hosts of phages from their genomic sequences. It achieves 63% mean accuracy when predicting the host genus among 20 genera for 3 kbp-long phage contigs. Over the best current tool, WisH shows much improved accuracy on phage sequences of a few kbp length and runs hundreds of times faster, making it suited for metagenomics studies.

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Galiez, C., Siebert, M., Enault, F., Vincent, J., & Söding, J. (2017). WIsH: who is the host? Predicting prokaryotic hosts from metagenomic phage contigs. Bioinformatics, 33(19), 3113–3114. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx383

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