HGT-DB: A database of putative horizontally transferred genes in prokaryotic complete genomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 187-189

  Garcia Vallve, S ^a   Guzman, E ^a   Montero, M A ^a   Romeu, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON USAGE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER DATABASE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037250391     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg004     Document Type: Review

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