Overview of errors in the reference sequence and annotation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, and variation amongst its isolates

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 807-810

  Köser, Claudio U ^a   Niemann, Stefan ^b   Summers, David K ^a   Archer, John A C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Annotation errors; Isolate variation; Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv; Sequencing errors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84859896072     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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