Quantitative determination of gene strand bias in prokaryotic genomes

Genomics

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 733-740

  de Carvalho, Marcos Oliveira ^a,b   Ferreira, Henrique B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Bioinformatics Organization   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome organization; Comparative genomics; Gene order

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FIRMICUTES; GENE LOCATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENOME ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

FIRMICUTES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 36448959030     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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