Isolation: This stage contains protocols for collecting an environmental sample, processing and plating it to check if it contains any phages, and verifying putative plaques.
| Protocol Title | Last Modified | Description |
| Identifying & Verifying Putative Plaques (Spot Tests) Download pdf |
Nov 14, 2011 | Determine whether a putative plaque is due to phage or artifact (namely an air bubble). |
| Collecting and Screening Soil Samples Download pdf |
Nov 14, 2011 | As the first real experiment in the phagehunting workflow, this protocol describes how to process and plate an environmental sample to check whether you've found a phage. |