Identification of compositionally distinct regions in genomes using the centroid method

Bioinformatics

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2672-2677

  Rajan, Issaac ^a   Aravamuthan, Sarang ^a   Mande, Sharmila S ^a  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 4; MESSENGER RNA;

ALCANIVORAX; ALCANIVORAX BORKUMENSIS; ARTICLE; AZOARCUS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 35748931450     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm405     Document Type: Article

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