Genome-wide search for local DNA segments with anomalous GC-content

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 555-564

  Ilatovskiy, Andrey ^a,b   Petukhov, Michael ^a,b  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

GC content; Genome; Horizontal gene transfer; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 64749115060     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2008.0159     Document Type: Article

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