Visualization of comparative genomic analyses by BLAST score ratio.
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SUBMITTER: Rasko DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC545078 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Visualization of comparative genomic analyses by BLAST score ratio.
Rasko David A DA Myers Garry S A GS Ravel Jacques J
BMC bioinformatics 20050105
<h4>Background</h4>The first microbial genome sequence, Haemophilus influenzae, was published in 1995. Since then, more than 400 microbial genome sequences have been completed or commenced. This massive influx of data provides the opportunity to obtain biological insights through comparative genomics. However few tools are available for this scale of comparative analysis.<h4>Results</h4>The BLAST Score Ratio (BSR) approach, implemented in a Perl script, classifies all putative peptides within th ...[more]
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