Citation

Please cite our preprint:

• Bouras G, Grigson SR, Mirdita M, Heinzinger M, Papudeshi B, Mallawaarachchi V, Green R, Kim SR, Mihalia V, Psaltis AJ, Wormald P-J, Vreugde S, Steinegger M, Edwards RA: "Protein Structure Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold", Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 54, Issue 1, 13 January 2026, gkaf1448, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1448

Please be sure to cite the following core dependencies and PHROGs database - citing all bioinformatics tools that you use helps us, so helps you get better bioinformatics tools:

• Pharokka - (https://github.com/gbouras13/pharokka) Bouras G, Nepal R, Houtak G, Psaltis AJ, Wormald P-J, Vreugde S. Pharokka: a fast scalable bacteriophage annotation tool. Bioinformatics, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2023, btac776
• Foldseek - (https://github.com/steineggerlab/foldseek) [van Kempen M, Kim S, Tumescheit C, Mirdita M, Lee J, Gilchrist C, Söding J, and Steinegger M. Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek. Nature Biotechnology (2023), doi:10.1038/s41587-023-01773-0
• ProstT5 - (https://github.com/mheinzinger/ProstT5) [Michael Heinzinger, Konstantin Weissenow, Joaquin Gomez Sanchez, Adrian Henkel, Martin Steinegger, Burkhard Rost. ProstT5: Bilingual language model for protein sequence and structure. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics (2024) doi:10.1101/2023.07.23.550085
• Colabfold - (https://github.com/sokrypton/ColabFold) [Mirdita M, Schütze K, Moriwaki Y, Heo L, Ovchinnikov S and Steinegger M. ColabFold: Making protein folding accessible to all. Nature Methods (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41592-022-01488-1
• PHROGs - (https://phrogs.lmge.uca.fr) [Terzian P., Olo Ndela E., Galiez C., Lossouarn J., Pérez Bucio R.E., Mom R., Toussaint A., Petit M.A., Enault F., "PHROG : families of prokaryotic virus proteins clustered using remote homology", NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqab067

Please also consider citing these supplementary databases where relevant:

• CARD - Alcock B.P. et al, CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database Nucleic Acids Research (2022) https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac920
• VFDB - Chen L., Yang J., Yao Z., Sun L., Shen Y., Jin Q., "VFDB: a reference database for bacterial virulence factors", Nucleic Acids Research (2005) https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gki008
• Defensefinder - F. Tesson, R. Planel, A. Egorov, H. Georjon, H. Vaysset, B. Brancotte, B. Néron, E. Mordret, A Bernheim, G. Atkinson, J. Cury. A Comprehensive Resource for Exploring Antiphage Defense: DefenseFinder Webservice, Wiki and Databases. bioRxiv (2024) https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.25.577194
• acrDB - please cite the original acrDB database paper Le Huang, Bowen Yang, Haidong Yi, Amina Asif, Jiawei Wang, Trevor Lithgow, Han Zhang, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas, Yanbin Yin, AcrDB: a database of anti-CRISPR operons in prokaryotes and viruses. Nucleic Acids Research (2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa857 AND the paper that generated the structures for these protein used by phold Harutyun Sahakyan, Kira S. Makarova, and Eugene V. Koonin. Search for Origins of Anti-CRISPR Proteins by Structure Comparison. The CRISPR Journal (2023)
• Netflax - Karin Ernits, Chayan Kumar Saha, Tetiana Brodiazhenko, Bhanu Chouhan, Aditi Shenoy, Jessica A. Buttress, Julián J. Duque-Pedraza, Veda Bojar, Jose A. Nakamoto, Tatsuaki Kurata, Artyom A. Egorov, Lena Shyrokova, Marcus J. O. Johansson, Toomas Mets, Aytan Rustamova, Jelisaveta Džigurski, Tanel Tenson, Abel Garcia-Pino, Henrik Strahl, Arne Elofsson, Vasili Hauryliuk, and Gemma C. Atkinson, The structural basis of hyperpromiscuity in a core combinatorial network of type II toxin–antitoxin and related phage defense systems. PNAS (2023) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305393120
• Netflax - Karin Ernits, Chayan Kumar Saha, Tetiana Brodiazhenko, Bhanu Chouhan, Aditi Shenoy, Jessica A. Buttress, Julián J. Duque-Pedraza, Veda Bojar, Jose A. Nakamoto, Tatsuaki Kurata, Artyom A. Egorov, Lena Shyrokova, Marcus J. O. Johansson, Toomas Mets, Aytan Rustamova, Jelisaveta Džigurski, Tanel Tenson, Abel Garcia-Pino, Henrik Strahl, Arne Elofsson, Vasili Hauryliuk, and Gemma C. Atkinson, The structural basis of hyperpromiscuity in a core combinatorial network of type II toxin–antitoxin and related phage defense systems. PNAS (2023) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305393120