title: Bioinformatics as a first-line approach for understanding bacteriophage transcription.
abstract: Current approach to understanding bacteriophage transcription strategies during infection includes a combination of experimental and bioinformatics approaches, which is often time and resource consuming. Given the exponentially growing number of sequenced bacteriophage genomes, it becomes sensible asking to what extent one can understand bacteriophage transcription by using bioinformatics methods alone. We here argue that a suitable choice of computational methods may provide a highly efficient first-line approach for underst-anding bacteriophage transcription.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry; Faculty of Biology; University of Belgrade ; Belgrade, Serbia.
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guzina
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry; Faculty of Biology; University of Belgrade ; Belgrade, Serbia.
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Djordjevic
keywords: bacteriophage transcription; bioinformatics analysis; computational genomics; genome analysis; promoter predictions; transcription start-site prediction