Inference of protein function and protein linkages in Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on prokaryotic genome organization: a combined computational approach

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Strong, Michael ^a   Mallick, Parag ^a   Pellegrini, Matteo ^b   Thompson, Michael J ^b   Eisenberg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Protein Pathways Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance Threshold; Functional Linkage; Intergenic Distance; Phylogenetic Profile; Prokaryotic Genome

Indexed keywords

ARABINOGALACTAN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GALACTAN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GALACTANS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0347824672     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-r59     Document Type: Article

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