MaGe: A microbial genome annotation system supported by synteny results

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-65

  Vallenet, David ^b   Labarre, Laurent ^b   Rouy, Zoé ^b   Barbe, Valérie ^a   Bocs, Stéphanie ^b   Cruveiller, Stéphane ^b   Lajus, Aurélie ^b   Pascal, Géraldine ^b   Scarpelli, Claude ^b   Médigue, Claudine ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^b Genoscope   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FRANKIA; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MODEL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SYNTENY; YERSINIA;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; INTERNET; SYNTENY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANKIA; FRANKIA ALNI; NEISSERIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS; YERSINIA;

EID: 31644444476     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj406     Document Type: Article

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