spolTools: Online utilities for analyzing spoligotypes of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2414-2415

  Tang, Chaka ^a   Reyes, Josephine F ^a   Luciani, Fabio ^a   Francis, Andrew R ^b   Tanaka, Mark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INTERNET; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SOFTWARE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 53749086072     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn434     Document Type: Article

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