Geptop: A Gene Essentiality Prediction Tool for Sequenced Bacterial Genomes Based on Orthology and Phylogeny

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Wei, Wen ^a   Ning, Lu Wen ^a   Ye, Yuan Nong ^a   Guo, Feng Biao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFIER; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; FRANCISELLA NOVICIDA; GENE SEQUENCE; GEPTOP; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84881583820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072343     Document Type: Article

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