The SeqWord Genome Browser: An online tool for the identification and visualization of atypical regions of bacterial genomes through oligonucleotide usage

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ganesan, Hamilton ^a   Rakitianskaia, Anna S ^a   Davenport, Colin F ^b   Tümmler, Burkhard ^b   Reva, Oleg N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOMES; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LARGE-SCALE SEQUENCES; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; WEALTH OF INFORMATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; TOOLS; VISUALIZATION;

GENES;

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PLASMID; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VIRUS; WEB BROWSER; BIOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERNET; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 51549120596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-333     Document Type: Article

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