Biosurveillance enterprise for operational awareness, a genomic-based approach for tracking pathogen virulence

Virulence

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 745-751

  Valdivia Granda, Willy A ^a  

^a Orion Integrated Biosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Biosurveillance; Genomic signature; Genomics; Motif fingerprint; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRULENCE; AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOMIC SIGNATURE; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOTIF FINGERPRINT; REVIEW;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; GENOMIC SIGNATURE; GENOMICS; MOTIF FINGERPRINT; VIRULENCE;

AWARENESS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BIOTERRORISM; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 84888334847     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/viru.26893     Document Type: Article

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