A novel in silico approach to identify potential therapeutic targets in human bacterial pathogens

HUGO Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 25-34

  Vetrivel, Umashankar ^a   Subramanian, Gurunathan ^b   Dorairaj, Sudarsanam ^c  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogens; CAI value; Codon usage; Drug targets; Subtractive genomics

Indexed keywords

2 C METHYL DEXTRO ERYTHRITOL 4 PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE GENE; ACCURACY; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CELL FILAMENTATION PROTEIN GENE; CELL SURVIVAL; CODON ADAPTATION INDEX; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA MINING; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DRUG TARGETING; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBTRACTIVE GENOMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 83555161670     PISSN: 18776558     EISSN: 18776566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11568-011-9152-7     Document Type: Article

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