title: LOCUST: a custom sequence locus typer for classifying microbial isolates.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  LOCUST is a custom sequence locus typer tool for classifying microbial genomes. It provides a fully automated opportunity to customize the classification of genome-wide nucleotide variant data most relevant to biological research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Source code, demo data, and detailed documentation are freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/locustyper .
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  lbrinkac@jcvi.org.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.|Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
authors.forename: Lauren M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Brinkac
authors.affiliation: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Inman
authors.affiliation: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Pratap
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Venepally
authors.affiliation: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Derrick E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Fouts
authors.affiliation: J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Granger
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sutton
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D058889:Molecular Typing / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software