SuperCAT: A supertree database for combined and integrative multilocus sequence typing analysis of the Bacillus cereus group of bacteria (including B. cereus, B. anthracis and B. thuringiensis)

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Tourasse, Nicolas J ^a   Kolstø, Anne Brit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DISTANCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; INTERNET; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 38549137822     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm877     Document Type: Article

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