title: Theoretical methods for identifying important functional genes in bacterial genomes.
abstract: Some functional genes, such as essential genes, highly expressed genes and horizontally transferred genes, play important roles in the survival and pathogenicity of bacteria. This review attempts to summarize current computational methods in identifying the above functional genes from bacterial genomes, which is of significant importance in exploring the bacterial genomes.
authors.affiliation: School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, PR China.
authors.forename: Junxiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Ling-Ling
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D015870:Gene Expression; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D020043:Genes, Essential; D016680:Genome, Bacterial
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins