Du, Zhihua
Li, Min
Lin, Kaihuang
Xing, Bo
Ou, Yuehua
Lin, Zihao
Song, Wenchen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3114-7254
Chen, Jie
Li, Junhua https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6784-1873
Li, Jianqiang
Xiao, Minfeng https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0507-7352
Article History
Received: 6 December 2024
Accepted: 26 February 2026
First Online: 20 March 2026
Competing interests
: Authors affiliated with BGI Research (M. L., M. X., and Junhua. L) and authors affiliated with Shenzhen University (Z. D., K. L., and Jiangqiang. L) have filed a patent application titled “ Method and System for Predicting Host Range of Bacteriophages, and Corresponding Computer Device or Medium”(Application No. PCT/CN2025/075560). It describes predicting algorithm in this study that predicts host specificity of phages based on tail and lysin proteins. Other authors declare no competing interests.