Comprehensive prediction of chromosome dimer resolution sites in bacterial genomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kono, Nobuaki ^a   Arakawa, Kazuharu ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; PROTEIN XERD; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; XERC PROTEIN, E COLI; XERD PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78651076675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-19     Document Type: Article

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