Body: <p>I am running searches for genes using <strong>Phaster</strong> {<a href="https://phaster.ca/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PHASTER (PHAge Search Tool Enhanced Release) is a significant upgrade to the popular PHAST web server for the rapid identification and annotation of prophage sequences within bacterial genomes and plasmids. </a>  } and would like to look up the phages that have them on <strong>PhageDB</strong> <a href="https://phagesdb.org/about/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Actinobacteriophage Database </a>to learn more about their distribution. The blast search returns a lot of information about the phages and I am unsure what part of the sequence it gives for phages would be helpful.</p>
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Comments.Text: Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
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Comments.Text: What is Phaster? Can you please provide a brief description about the program, and ideally a link that we can visit to get more information? Also... this question doesn't really have a question in it. Could you please clarify what more precisely what you are struggling with?
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Comments.Text: I am not sure is a good idea to look for result on PHAGEDB , its full name list https://phagesdb.org/data/?set=all&type=simple ,  is probably smaller the the hits out of PHASTER
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Comments.Text: unless I am getting it wrong and you are asking to use https://phagesdb.org/blast/ local blast to search for your sequence inside PHAGEDB ?
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Comments.Text: mmmmmh  the phages on PHAGEDB that are not deposited at NCBI are the only one you should look/screen for , but still I am not getting your question PHASTER is used to track leftover presence of phage in plasmid and genomes , PHAGEDB is a repo (kind of non official for actionobacteria phages) or am I wrong ?
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Title: How to identify phages from Phaster in PhageDB
ThreadText: # How to identify phages from Phaster in PhageDB
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-12-01)
  
  I am running searches for genes using **Phaster** {[PHASTER (PHAge Search Tool Enhanced Release) is a significant upgrade to the popular PHAST web server for the rapid identification and annotation of prophage sequences within bacterial genomes and plasmids.](https://phaster.ca/)  } and would like to look up the phages that have them on **PhageDB** [The Actinobacteriophage Database](https://phagesdb.org/about/) to learn more about their distribution. The blast search returns a lot of information about the phages and I am unsure what part of the sequence it gives for phages would be helpful.
  
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  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.  
  > **username_2**: What is Phaster? Can you please provide a brief description about the program, and ideally a link that we can visit to get more information? Also... this question doesn't really have a question in it. Could you please clarify what more precisely what you are struggling with?  
  > **username_3**: I am not sure is a good idea to look for result on PHAGEDB , its full name list https://phagesdb.org/data/?set=all&type=simple ,  is probably smaller the the hits out of PHASTER  
  > **username_3**: unless I am getting it wrong and you are asking to use https://phagesdb.org/blast/ local blast to search for your sequence inside PHAGEDB ?  
  > **username_3**: mmmmmh  the phages on PHAGEDB that are not deposited at NCBI are the only one you should look/screen for , but still I am not getting your question PHASTER is used to track leftover presence of phage in plasmid and genomes , PHAGEDB is a repo (kind of non official for actionobacteria phages) or am I wrong ?  
  
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