A new vector for identification of prokaryotes and their variable-size genomes.
A large number of prokaryotes have been produced, so how to provide a means to describe and distinguish them accurately is becoming a key issue of prokaryotic taxonomy. We proposed an efficient algorithm to filter out most genome fragments that are horizontally transferred, and extracted a new genome vector (GV). To highlight the power of GV, we applied it to identify prokaryotes and their variable-size genome fragments. The result indicated that the new vector as species tags can accurately identify genome fragments as short as 3,000 bp at species level.
College of Communications Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China. ht_happy@126.com
Tao
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Hou
Fu
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Liu
Caixia X
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Lin
Dingyuan Y
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Li
D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D005827:Genetics, Microbial / Q000379:methods*; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods*