Assigning strains to bacterial species via the internet

BMC Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bishop, Cynthia J ^a   Aanensen, David M ^a   Jordan, Gregory E ^b   Kilian, Mogens ^c   Hanage, William P ^a   Spratt, Brian G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERNET; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; TAXONOMIC RANK; TYPE STRAIN; WEB BROWSER; ALLELE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALLELES; BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERNET; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRIDANS STREPTOCOCCI;

EID: 60549102164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-3     Document Type: Article

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