Twenty years of bacterial genome sequencing

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 787-794

  Loman, Nicholas J ^a   Pallen, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSPHERE; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; EXPLOITING GENOMICS; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE MOLECULE LONG READ SEQUENCING; TRANSLATIONAL CLINICAL BACTERIAL GENOMICS; WHOLE GENOME SHOTGUN SEQUENCING; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84947487970     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3565     Document Type: Review

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