WGS analysis and interpretation in clinical and public health microbiology laboratories: What are the requirements and how do existing tools compare?

Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 437-458

  Wyres, Kelly L ^a   Conway, Thomas C ^a   Garg, Saurabh ^a   Queiroz, Carlos ^a   Reumann, Matthias ^b   Holt, Kathryn ^c   Rusu, Laura I ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Clinical; Genomics; Microbiology; Public health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INTERPRETATION BIAS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84926620463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens3020437     Document Type: Article

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