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SkewIT: The Skew Index Test for large-scale GC Skew analysis of bacterial genomes

GC skew is a phenomenon observed in many bacterial genomes, wherein the two replication strands of the same chromosome contain different proportions of guanine and cytosine nucleotides. Here we demonstrate that this phenomenon, which was first discovered in the mid-1990s, can be used today as an ana...

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Autores principales: Lu, Jennifer, Salzberg, Steven L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33275607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008439