PIPS: Pathogenicity island prediction software

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Soares, Siomar C ^a   AbreuViní, Vinícius A C ^a   Ramos, Rommel T J ^b   Cerdeira, Louise ^b   Silva, Artur ^b   Baumbach, Jan ^c   Trost, Eva ^d   Tauch, Andreas ^d   Hirata, Raphael ^e   Mattos Guaraldi, Ana L ^e   Miyoshi, Anderson ^a   Azevedo, Vasco ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSPOSASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CODON USAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND PREDICTION SOFTWARE; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; SOFTWARE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84857097461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030848     Document Type: Article

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