From microbial genomics to meta-genomics

Drug Development Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 180-192

  Covacci, Antonello ^a   Kennedy, Giulia C ^b   Cormack, Brendan ^c   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Falkow, Stanley ^c  

^a Instituto Ricerche Immunobiol Siena   (Italy)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential fluorescence induction (DFI); In vitro transposition; In vivo expression technology (IVET); Microchips; Pathogenicity islands; Representational difference analysis (RDA); Signature tagged transposon method (STM); Two dimensional immobilin gel electrophoresis (2DIGE); Virulence genes

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME; META ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031425564     PISSN: 02724391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2299(199707/08)41:3/4<180::AID-DDR8>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Review

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