Machine-learning classification suggests that many alphaproteobacterial prophages may instead be gene transfer agents
Roman Kogay, Taylor B. Neely, Daniel P. Birnbaum, Camille Hankel, Migun Shakya, Olga Zhaxybayeva
The paper uses a machine-learning classifier to distinguish gene transfer agents from viral homologs in alphaproteobacterial genomes, finding that many prophage predictions are likely GTAs.
Genome Biology and Evolution · Sep 26, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics