Remarkable sequence signatures in archaeal genomes

Archaea

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 185-190

  Fadiel, Ahmed ^a   Lithwick, Stuart ^b   Ganji, Gopi ^b   Scherer, Stephen W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bioinformatics; Comparative genomics; Genome signature; Oligonucleotide frequencies

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3042762802     PISSN: 14723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2003/458235     Document Type: Article

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