Background: Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) is a method of typing that facilitates the discrimination of microbial isolates by comparing the sequences of housekeeping gene frag...
Keith A. Jolley, Man-Suen Chan, Martin C. J. Maide...
Background: Molecular database search tools need statistical models to assess the significance for the resulting hits. In the classical approach one asks the question how probable...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Inke Herms, Sven Rahmann, Alex...
Background: Methods of determining whether or not any particular HIV-1 sequence stems - completely or in part - from some unknown HIV-1 subtype are important for the design of vac...
Thomas Unterthiner, Anne-Kathrin Schultz, Jan Bull...
We study the scalable management of XML data in P2P networks based on distributed hash tables (DHTs). We identify performance limitations in this context, and propose an array of t...
Background: Bacterial typing schemes based on the sequences of genes encoding surface antigens require databases that provide a uniform, curated, and widely accepted nomenclature ...