Detecting gene clusters under evolutionary constraint in a large number of genomes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 571-577

  Ling, Xu ^a   He, Xin ^a   Xin, Dong ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SOFTWARE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 61449125108     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp027     Document Type: Article

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