PhagesDB


The Actinobacteriophage database, more commonly known as PhagesDB, is a bioinformatics website that collects and shares information related to the discovery, characterization, and genomics of viruses that typically infect Actinobacteria. At the start of 2026, the database contained information on more than 30,000 bacteriophages, as well as over 5,000 fully sequenced phages.

Design and features

PhagesDB has individual entries for each different virus in the database, along with a separate GeneMark page, as well as amino-acid information about phage genomes. The table below indicates the different types and numbers of phages sequenced:
Phage Types SequencedNumber Sequenced
Actinoplanes1
Arthrobacter674
Brevibacterium3
Corynebacterium33
Curtobacterium54
Gordonia873
Microbacterium780
Mycobacterium2702
Propionibacterium57
Rhodococcus75
Rothia1
Streptomyces420
Tetrasphaera1
Tsukamurella2

Access and rights to data

Information published in this database can be freely viewed by anyone, and an Application Programming Interface is available. PhagesDB keeps some unpublished data, including newly performed genomic sequences.