Context-driven discovery of gene cassettes in mobile integrons using a computational grammar

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 281-

  Tsafnat, Guy ^a   Coiera, Enrico ^a   Partridge, Sally R ^b   Schaeffer, Jaron ^a   Iredell, Jon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION; BACK-GROUND KNOWLEDGE; GENE CASSETTES; GOLD STANDARDS; LARGE AND COMPLEX STRUCTURES; MEAN SENSITIVITY;

GENES;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAMMAR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRON; METAGENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449346311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-281     Document Type: Article

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