chewBBACA: A complete suite for gene-by-gene schema creation and strain identification

Gene-by-gene approaches are becoming increasingly popular in bacterial genomic epidemiology and outbreak detection. However, there is a lack of open-source scalable software for schema definition and allele calling for these methodologies. The chewBBACA suite was designed to assist users in the crea...

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Published inMicrobial genomics Vol. 4; no. 3
Main Authors Silva, Mickael, Machado, Miguel P., Silva, Diogo N., Rossi, Mirko, Moran-Gilad, Jacob, Santos, Sergio, Ramirez, Mario, Carriço, João André
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Microbiology Society 01.03.2018
Subjects
Methods Paper
allele calling
chewBBACA
schema
multilocus sequence typing
gene-by-gene
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ISSN2057-5858
2057-5858
DOI10.1099/mgen.0.000166

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