A primer on microbial bioinformatics for nonbioinformaticians

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 342-349

  Carrico J A ^a   Rossi, M ^b   Moran Gilad, J ^c,d,e   Van Domselaar, G ^f,g   Ramirez, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^e European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Group for Genomic and Molecular Diagnostics (ESGMD)   (Switzerland)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics software; Genomic epidemiology; High throughput sequencing; Microbial bioinformatics; Microbial typing

Indexed keywords

AUTHOR; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA BASE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL BIOINFORMATICS; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85041573549     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.12.015     Document Type: Review

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