Identification of prophages in bacterial genomes by dinucleotide relative abundance difference

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Srividhya, K V ^a   Alaguraj, V ^a   Poornima, G ^a   Kumar, Dinesh ^a   Singh, G P ^a   Raghavenderan, L ^a   Mohan Katta, A V S K ^a   Mehta, Preeti ^a   Krishnaswamy, S ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE RELATIVE ABUNDANCE DIFFERENCE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERNET; PROPHAGE; VALIDATION PROCESS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEOTIDES; PROPHAGES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 43149109336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001193     Document Type: Article

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