Article
Platon: identification and characterization of bacterial plasmid contigs in short-read draft assemblies exploiting protein-sequence-based replicon distribution scores
2020-04-23
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Plasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements replicating independently of the chromosome which play a vital role in the environmental adaptation of bacteria. Due to potential mobilization or conjugation capabilities, plasmids are important genetic vehicles for antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence factors with huge and increasing clinical implications. They are therefore subject to larg...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f81b3659-6ab9-5806-88bd-68f54d63f210
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.04.21.053082
