Integration of sequence-similarity and functional association information can overcome intrinsic problems in orthology mapping across bacterial genomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Li, Guojun ^a,b   Ma, Qin ^a,b   Mao, Xizeng ^a   Yin, Yanbin ^a   Zhu, Xiaoran ^b   Xu, Ying ^a,c,d  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BioEnergy Science Center (Http://bioenergycenterorg/)   (United States)

^d JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERNET; ORTHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 83755220035     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr766     Document Type: Article

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