Opportunity Hooks

Phage, Mobile Elements, and Defense

Why This Lens Exists

Tenant and database boundaries do not match how scientists or agents plan analyses. This data-type lens groups collections by the kind of evidence they provide and the questions they make easier to ask.

Collections In This Lens

  • phagefoundry_acinetobacter_genome_browser
  • phagefoundry_klebsiella_genome_browser_genomedepot
  • phagefoundry_paeruginosa_genome_browser
  • phagefoundry_pviridiflava_genome_browser
  • phagefoundry_strain_modelling
  • protect_genomedepot

Best Uses

Use this lens to find reusable source data before choosing a specific collection. It is especially useful for agents that need to identify complementary data, select join keys, or explain why a derived product is reusable across projects.

Recent project use: prophage_amr_comobilization uses pangenome AMR and prophage markers to make prophage burden a covariate for resistance ecology, while t4ss_cazy_environmental_hgt uses environmental MAGs to connect T4SS neighborhoods, CAZy HGT, and metal-resistance enrichment.

Metrics To Watch

  • Evidence traces: which projects already used these collections.
  • Reuse: whether derived products exist beyond a single project.
  • Under-explored combinations: collection pairs with obvious scientific value but few projects.
  • Caveat load: schema gaps, identifier mismatches, sampling bias, and staging status.
  • Mechanism partitioning: whether a signal is prophage, plasmid, ICE/IME, T4SS, or generic genome openness.

Caveats

Do not treat collection co-membership as proof that a join is valid. A join recipe should name stable identifiers, filtering rules, and failure modes before it supports a claim.