Genome update: The 1000th genome - A cautionary tale

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 603-608

  Lagesen, Karin ^a,b,c   Ussery, Dave W ^a   Wassenaar, Trudy M ^a,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d Molecular Microbiology and Genomics Consultants   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; DNA DATA BANK OF JAPAN; EMBL NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATABASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE DATABASE;

COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77749296117     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.038257-0     Document Type: Note

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