INPHARED

We developed INPHARED because we kept running into the same problem when working with phage genomics: there wasn’t a single, reliable place to find a well-curated set of phage genomes that we could confidently use as a reference. Public databases contain huge numbers of phage sequences, but they vary a lot in quality, completeness, annotation, and metadata, which makes large-scale comparisons difficult and sometimes misleading. INPHARED was built to address this by bringing phage genomes together in one place, applying consistent annotations, QC checks and filtering, and making the results openly available. Our aim was to provide a practical, transparent resource that helps researchers quickly put new phage genomes into context, whether they are working on basic phage biology, environmental viromics, or applied areas such as phage therapy. The paper can be found here

A link to the entire INPHARED dataset can be found here the entire dataset is >10GB !!

tar -xvf GenomesDB_Jan_2026.tar.gz

Each genome has been re-annotated with Prokka and the PHROGs database

Below is a searchable table of the current dataset

Accession	Description	Genome Length (KB)	molGC (%)	Genus	Sub-family	Family	Host