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Phage infection occurs accidentally not only in the fermentation factories but also in the lab, and it might get worse and worse without appropriate treatment. Therefore, we’d like to dedicate a booklet about prevention, identification, and control of bacteriophage infection. By coincidence, we met team OUC-China in the CCIC whose strain died abnormally in the shake flask. Having heard our anti-phage project, they wanted to figure out whether they encountered a phage infection. We sent the script of our booklet to them, and they easily checked that the death strain was not caused by phage. Meanwhile, with the feedback of their identification, we together improved the PICP (Prevention, Identification, Control of Phage) booklet（链接）, allowing more teams to maintain a phage-free lab environment.

We team achieved an anti-phage strategy against infection in different infection periods. Therefore, it’s essential to control the promoter strength for the potential leakage or inclusion body problems. Fortunately, team Fudan inspired us that it might be interesting to use ANN for promoter strength prediction, which will save us a lot of time for test hundreds of promoters one by one in experiment. Then, they gave us a paper1 about the similar prediction method, allowing us to establish an ANN promoter strength prediction model of our own. With their help we can select more suitable promoters designed by computer simulation.