Benchmarking of methods for genomic taxonomy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1529-1539

  Larsen, Mette V ^a   Cosentino, Salvatore ^a   Lukjancenko, Oksana ^a   Saputra, Dhany ^a   Rasmussen, Simon ^a   Hasman, Henrik ^a   Sicheritz Pontén, Thomas ^a   Aarestrup, Frank M ^a   Ussery, David W ^a,b   Lund, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

16S RRNA GENE; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS WEIHENSTEPHANENSIS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM NOVYI; DNA SEQUENCE; FRANCISELLA NOVICIDA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOMICS; GYRB GENE; KMERFINDER; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA ANANATIS; PANTOEA STEWARTII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUALITY CONTROL; READS2TYPE; RIBOSOMAL MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIESFINDER; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; TAXONOMY; TAXONOMYFINDER; BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84899530047     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02981-13     Document Type: Article

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