This repository contains the code and database related to our manuscript "Predicting bacteriophage hosts based on sequences of annotated receptor-binding proteins", published in Scientific Reports (January 2021). This research is funded by a PhD fellowship strategic basic research from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), grant number 1S69520N.

Access the research paper via the following link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81063-4

More specifically, this repository contains the following files:

• RBP_database.csv contains the collected RBP sequences as described in Materials & Methods.

• RBP_functions.py is a Python script containing all the necessary manually implemented functions for the various analyses carried out in this study.

• RBP_alignment.jl is a Julia script used to compute pairwise alignments between the sequences to explore the diversity and assess redundancy in the database.

• RBP_alignmentscores.txt is .txt file containing the alignment scores if you prefer not to compute them with the provided Julia script.

• RBP_host_prediction.ipynb is an IPython notebook containing all the analyses, model constructions and evaluations described in Materials & Methods.