Exploring bacterial insertion sequences with ISfinder: Objectives, uses, and future developments

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 859, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-103

  Siguier, P ^a   Varani, A ^a   Perochon, J ^a   Chandler, M ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial insertion sequence; Genome annotation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84860113101     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-603-6_5     Document Type: Article

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