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Branko Rihtman

University of WarwickORCID 0000-0002-3226-5500Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintMay 7, 2026

Bacteriophage genomics: What has five years of INPHARED taught us?

Ryan Cook, Branko Rihtman, Alise Jany Ponsero…·Andrew D. Millard

The paper compares INPHARED database snapshots from 2021 to 2026, showing growth in phage genomes but reduced novel species diversity and persistent host bias.

DOI 10.64898/2026.05.06.722914

bacteria (other)DNA methylation

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintNov 1, 2025

Rolling out plaque-2-sequence: a single plaque sequencing approach enabling rapid, low-cost sequencing of phages directly from plaques

Slawomir Michniewski, Rebecca Glenny, Andrew Kinsella…·Andrew D. Millard

This paper introduces plaque-2-sequence, a low-cost, high-throughput method for sequencing phage genomes directly from plaques, enabling rapid and scalable genomic analysis of phages.

3 citations

bacteria (other)long-read sequencing

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