SpolPred: Rapid and accurate prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes from short genomic sequences

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 2991-2993

  Coll, Francesc ^a   Mallard, Kim ^a   Preston, Mark D ^a   Bentley, Stephen ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^b   McNerney, Ruth ^a   Martin, Nigel ^c   Clark, Taane G ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84869471315     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts544     Document Type: Article

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