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 # Bacteriophages_Playing_Nice
 For the paper 'Bacteriophages Playing Nice: Lysogenic Bacteriophage Replication Stable in the Human Gut Microbiota'
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+All sequences and meta-data come from the paper:
+Rapid evolution of the human gut virome, Minot et al 2013, PNAS [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300833110] (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1300833110)