Making sense of an alphabet soup: The use of a new bioinformatics tool for identification of novel gene islands. Focus on "Identification of genomic islands in the genome of Bacillus cereus by comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis"

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2004, Pages 180-181

  Charkowski, Amy O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EDITORIAL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOMIC ISLAND; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS;

EID: 1442331933     PISSN: 15312267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00199.2003     Document Type: Editorial

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