CONTIGuator: A bacterial genomes finishing tool for structural insights on draft genomes

Source Code for Biology and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Galardini, Marco ^a   Biondi, Emanuele G ^b   Bazzicalupo, Marco ^a   Mengoni, Alessio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

GenomicsGenome finishingSoftware; Structural genomics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79959240236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0473-6-11     Document Type: Article

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