Automatic annotation of microbial genomes and metagenomic sequences

Metagenomics and its Applications in Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environmental Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 62-78

  Solovyev, Victor ^a   Salamov, Asaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOFTBERRY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic genome annotation; Bacterial gene prediction; Metagenomic sequences; Operons; Promoters; Terminators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895303487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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