BMC Bioinformatics

official impact factor 3.03

Open Access

Systematic determination of the mosaic structure of bacterial genomes: species backbone versus strain-specific loops

H Chiapello*, I Bourgait, F Sourivong, G Heuclin, A Gendrault-Jacquemard, M-A Petit and M El Karoui

BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:171 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-171

Accesses  

  • Last 30 days: 45 accesses
  • Last 365 days: 465 accesses
  • All time: 3960 accesses

Cited by

BioMed Central: 7 citations

Research   Open Access

Classification of genomic islands using decision trees and their ensemble algorithms

Dongsheng Che, Cory Hockenbury, Robert Marmelstein, Khaled Rasheed BMC Genomics 2010, 11(Suppl 2):S1 (2 November 2010)

Research   Open Access Highly Accessed

Small variable segments constitute a major type of diversity of bacterial genomes at the species level

Fabrice Touzain, Erick Denamur, Claudine Médigue, Valérie Barbe, Meriem El Karoui, Marie-Agnès Petit Genome Biology 2010, 11:R45 (30 April 2010)

Comparison of all available genomes of three bacterial species suggests that a large part of genome diversity is contributed by short regions.

Database   Open Access

MOSAIC: an online database dedicated to the comparative genomics of bacterial strains at the intra-species level

Hélène Chiapello, Annie Gendrault, Christophe Caron, Jérome Blum, Marie-Agnès Petit, Meriem El Karoui BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:498 (27 November 2008)

Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

Evaluation of genomic island predictors using a comparative genomics approach

Morgan GI Langille, William WL Hsiao, Fiona SL Brinkman BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:329 (5 August 2008)

Research   Open Access

Visualization of pseudogenes in intracellular bacteria reveals the different tracks to gene destruction

Hans-Henrik Fuxelius, Alistair C Darby, Nam-Huyk Cho, Siv GE Andersson Genome Biology 2008, 9:R42 (26 February 2008)

Variably present genes and pseudogenes in Rickettsia species tend to have been acquired more recently and to be more divergent from the genes conserved across all species

Methodology article   Open Access

Statistical tests to compare motif count exceptionalities

Stéphane Robin, Sophie Schbath, Vincent Vandewalle BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:84 (8 March 2007)

Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

Bacterial repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences are DNA targets for Insertion Sequence elements

Raquel Tobes, Eduardo Pareja BMC Genomics 2006, 7:62 (24 March 2006)