The multilocus sequence typing network: mlst.net

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages

  Aanensen, David M ^a   Spratt, Brian G ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLONAL VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRAIT; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; LABORATORY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOINFORMATICS; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; INTERNET; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 23144435334     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki415     Document Type: Article

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