DndDB: A database focused on phosphorothioation of the DNA backbone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ou, Hong Yu ^a   He, Xinyi ^a   Shao, Yucheng ^a   Tai, Cui ^a   Rajakumar, Kumar ^b,c   Deng, Zixin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHOROTHIOATE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORODITHIOIC ACID;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNDDB; DOCUMENTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOROTHIOATE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 65249120746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005132     Document Type: Article

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