NeMeSys: A biological resource for narrowing the gap between sequence and function in the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis

Genome Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Rusniok, Christophe ^a   Vallenet, David ^b   Floquet, Stéphanie ^c,e   Ewles, Helen ^d   Mouzé Soulama, Coralie ^c,f   Brown, Daniel ^d   Lajus, Aurélie ^b   Buchrieser, Carmen ^a   Médigue, Claudine ^b   Glaser, Philippe ^a   Pelicic, Vladimir ^c,d  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MUTABILIS SA   (France)

^f FAB pharma   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NASOPHARYNX; PATHOGENICITY; SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 75349090422     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-10-r110     Document Type: Article

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