An acquisition account of genomic islands based on genome signature comparisons

BMC Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  van Passel, M W J ^a   Bart, A ^a   Thygesen, H H ^a   Luyf, A C ^b   van Kampen, A H C ^b   van der Ende, A ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Faculty of Science   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIRCULAR DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMIC ISLAND; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; SCORING SYSTEM; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 28344433019     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-163     Document Type: Article

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