Data to Power Precision Phage Therapy: A Look at the Phage Directory-Phage Australia Partnership

Jessica C Sacher; Jan Zheng; Ruby C Y Lin

doi:10.1089/phage.2022.29030.jcs

Data to Power Precision Phage Therapy: A Look at the Phage Directory-Phage Australia Partnership

Phage (New Rochelle). 2022 Jun 1;3(2):112-115. doi: 10.1089/phage.2022.29030.jcs. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Authors

Jessica C Sacher^{1

2}, Jan Zheng^{1

2}, Ruby C Y Lin^{2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Phage Directory, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.

Abstract

Phage Directory has recently partnered with Phage Australia to help optimize Australia's data-centric standardized approach to personalized phage therapy. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the genesis of Phage Australia, how the Phage Directory-Phage Australia partnership started, and what it is working toward.

Keywords: bacteriophage; bioinformatics; data science; phage; phage therapy.