Host-parasite relations of bacteria and phages can be unveiled by Oligostickiness, a measure of relaxed sequence similarity

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 563-570

  Ahmed, Shamim ^a   Saito, Ayumu ^a   Suzuki, Miho ^a   Nemoto, Naoto ^a   Nishigaki, Koichi ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE GAMMA; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE PZA; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BACTERIUM; BINDING AFFINITY; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSTICKINESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SET OF OLIGOSTICKINESS SIMILARITY SCORE; SPECIES COMPARISON; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNCLASSIFIED VIRUSES;

EID: 61449228484     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp003     Document Type: Article

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