PHI-Canto: Creating a metagenotype
Channel: PHI-base
Date: 2023-02-22

This tutorial demonstrates how to create and annotate a metagenotype in PHI-Canto. Metagenotypes are used to represent the combined genotype of the pathogen and host so that it can be annotated, for example with pathogen-host interaction phenotypes and the name of the disease caused by the interaction.

PHI-Canto is an online annotation tool used for curation of peer-reviewed literature on pathogen-host interactions. The tool is free to use, and can be used by any researcher who wants to curate a publication into PHI-base, the Pathogen-Host Interactions Database (http://www.phi-base.org).

If you want to curate a publication to be included in PHI-base, use the following link:
https://canto.phi-base.org

If you want to try using PHI-Canto without submitting data to PHI-base, we have a demo version of the tool available:
https://demo-canto.phi-base.org

PHI-Canto was developed by the PHI-base team at Rothamsted Research, in collaboration with the PomBase team at the University of Cambridge. PomBase are the creators of Canto, the annotation tool that PHI-Canto was derived from.