Article
Meningococcus genome informatics platform: a system for analyzing multilocus sequence typing data.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jul 2009
Katz Lee S, Bolen Chris R, Harcourt Brian H, Schmink Susanna, Wang Xin, Kislyuk Andrey, Taylor Robert T, Mayer Leonard W, Jordan I King
Abstract excerpt
The Meningococcus Genome Informatics Platform (MGIP) is a suite of computational tools for the analysis of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) data, at http://mgip.biology.gatech.edu. MLST is used to generate allelic profiles to characterize strains of Neisseria meningitidis, a major cause of bacterial meningitis worldwide. Neisseria meningitidis strains are characterized with MLST as specific sequence types (ST)...
Topics
- Alleles
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Genome, Bacterial
- Genomics
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Reproducibility of Results
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Software
- User-Computer Interface
