GenomeComp: A visualization tool for microbial genome comparison

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-426

  Yang, Jian ^a   Wang, Jinhua ^a   Yao, Zhi Jian ^b   Jin, Qi ^c   Shen, Yan ^b   Chen, Runsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^c State Key Lab Molec Virol G   (China)

Author keywords

Perl Tk; Visualization; Whole genome comparison

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038798562     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(03)00094-0     Document Type: Article

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