GenColors: Annotation and comparative genomics of prokaryotes made easy

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 395, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-96

  Romualdi, Alessandro ^a   Felder, Marius ^a   Rose, Dominie ^a   Gausmann, Ulrike ^a   Schilhabel, Markus ^a   Glöckner, Gernot ^a   Platzer, Matthias ^a   Sühnel, Jürgen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Genome analysis; Genome comparison; Prokaryotic genomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; INTERNET;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOMICS; INTERNET;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA GARINII; ESCHERICHIA; LEGIONELLA; LEPTOSPIRA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA;

EID: 36549013106     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1385/1-59745-514-8:75     Document Type: Article

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