Detecting sequence homology at the gene cluster level with multigeneblast

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1218-1223

  Medema, Marnix H ^a   Takano, Eriko ^a,b   Breitling, Rainer ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

comparative genomics; evolution; gene clusters; homology; operons; software

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MULTIGENEBLAST; OPERON; SEARCH ENGINE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84876587454     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst025     Document Type: Article

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