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Record W4415711539 · doi:10.1016/j.mex.2025.103701

Isolation of F-specific Inovirus filamentous phages from environmental sewage samples

2025· article· en· W4415711539 on OpenAlexaff
Natasha Theriault, Bradley W. M. Cook, Steven Theriault, Deborah A. Court

Bibliographic record

VenueMethodsX · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicBacteriophages and microbial interactions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of ManitobaRTDS Technologies (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLytic cycleIsolation (microbiology)BacteriophageSewageMyoviridaeBacteria

Abstract

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Bacteriophage (phage) isolation from various environmental sources is an important step in identifying phages suitable for therapeutic and/or research purposes. Most published protocols outlining phage isolation techniques focus on the identification and/or characterization of strictly lytic phages. Here, a simple, adapted protocol specific for the isolation of non-lytic, filamentous phages is described. This method can be used in laboratories with access to basic microbiological equipment. Briefly, the adapted protocol steps involve:•Phage enrichment with F-pilus expressing bacterial host and sewage filtrate•Dilution and agar overlay plating of enriched culture•Selection of hazy, turbid plaques followed by screening via PCR.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.262 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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