In silico reconstruction of the metabolic and pathogenic potential of bacterial genomes using subsystems

Genome Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages 21-34

  McNeil, L K ^a   Aziz, R K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIHYDRONEOPTERIN TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTHRAX; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHOLERA; COMMENSAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERNET; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOGENOMICS; PHARYNGITIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950628554     PISSN: 16609263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000235760     Document Type: Review

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