Microbial comparative pan-genomics using binomial mixture models

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The size of the core- and pan-genome of bacterial species is a topic of increasing interest due to the growing number of sequenced prokaryote genomes, many from the same species. Attempts to estimate these quantities have been made,...

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Main Authors: Ussery David W, Almøy Trygve, Snipen Lars
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-08-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/385