LOCP—locating pilus operons in Gram-positive bacteria
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LOCP - locating pilus operons in Gram-positive bacteria
UNLABELLED Pilus operons encode a pivotal host-microbe interaction structure that is vital for pathogenicity, colonization and adhesion. LOCP is a computational tool to quickly test whether or not the genome of a gram-positive bacterium of interest or some DNA-contig in a metagenomic sample hold pilus operons. Predictions are made based on distinctive motifs of pilus-related protein sequences a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformatics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1460-2059,1367-4803
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp127