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| Georgios S VernikosSummaryAffiliation: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Country: UK Publications
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The complete genome, comparative and functional analysis of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia reveals an organism heavily shielded by drug resistance determinantsLisa C Crossman
Pathogen Sequencing Unit, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
Genome Biol 9:R74. 2008..Whilst relatively distant phylogenetically, the closest sequenced relatives of S. maltophilia are the plant pathogenic xanthomonads...- Genomic and genetic analyses of diversity and plant interactions of Pseudomonas fluorescensMark W Silby
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Centre for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Genome Biol 10:R51. 2009..A functional genomic in vivo expression technology (IVET) screen provided insight into genes used by P. fluorescens in its natural environment and an improved understanding of the ecological significance of diversity within this species... - Genetic flux over time in the Salmonella lineageGeorgios S Vernikos
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Genome Biol 8:R100. 2007..Over time, the composition of those sequences tends to become more similar to the compositional signature of their host (amelioration)... - Independent evolution of the core and accessory gene sets in the genus Neisseria: insights gained from the genome of Neisseria lactamica isolate 020-06Julia S Bennett
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
BMC Genomics 11:652. 2010..Genomic comparisons of these three bacteria will provide insights into the mechanisms and evolution of pathogenesis in this group of organisms, which are applicable to understanding these processes more generally... - Identification, variation and transcription of pneumococcal repeat sequencesNicholas J Croucher
Pathogen Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
BMC Genomics 12:120. 2011..However, little is known about the role they play in pneumococcal genetics... - Identification of the ancestral killer immunoglobulin-like receptor gene in primatesJennifer G Sambrook
Immunogenomics Laboratory, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 ISA, UK
BMC Genomics 7:209. 2006..Since few KIR remain orthologous between species, with only one of them, KIR2DL4, shown to be common to human, apes and monkeys, the evolution of the KIR gene family in primates remains unclear... - Interpolated variable order motifs for identification of horizontally acquired DNA: revisiting the Salmonella pathogenicity islandsGeorgios S Vernikos
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Bioinformatics 22:2196-203. 2006..g. in short sliding windows. Most of the current HGT prediction methods require pre-existing annotation, which may restrict their application on newly sequenced genomes... - Resolving the structural features of genomic islands: a machine learning approachGeorgios S Vernikos
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
Genome Res 18:331-42. 2008.... - A common genomic framework for a diverse assembly of plasmids in the symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteriaLisa C Crossman
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 3:e2567. 2008..The present analysis allows us to conclude that a heterogeneous and quickly diversifying group of plasmids co-exists in a common genomic framework... - GeneViTo: visualizing gene-product functional and structural features in genomic datasetsGeorgios S Vernikos
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15701, Athens, Greece
BMC Bioinformatics 4:53. 2003..Visual inspection can be used as a basis to assess the quality of various analysis algorithms and to aid in-depth genomic studies...