Questions tagged [bacteria]
One of the three domains of life, with Archaea and eukaryotes. Bacteria, along with Archaea, are prokaryotes, i.e. lack a nucleus.
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What is the typical host-to-bug DNA ratio found in nanopore sequencing without amplification?
I'm interested in sequencing a human sputum sample using an ONT MinION without performing any type of whole genome DNA amplification or targeted PCR.
Has anyone found a good reference (or anecdotal ...
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eggNOG API, how's it work?
Background eggNOG uses seed orthologues which correspond to its own internal database, so for example J421_1876 can be placed in its online search engine here. This ...
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Compare illumina sequencing output with reference genome
I am new to whole genome sequencing. I want to compare illumina whole genome sequencing of mutants of a particular bacteria with a genome (not annotated) of the original strain to look for what the ...
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How to modify dot plot in MUMmer 3 for bacteria comparative genomics?
I was trying to make a dotplot to visualize genome-genome sequence alignment by using the MUMmer 3 software (it is typically used to compare whole genome sequences of bacteria). I runned the same ...
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Why is Clostridium difficile toxin A + B outdated in snomed?
I'm looking at the new version of the Snomed dictionary and the concept 707993000 Clostridium difficile toxin A + B (substance) is deactivated (and outdated) since ...
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Search for specific sequence in group of bacterial genomes
I have a group of L. plantarum genomes. I identified the pangenome using Roary. From the pangenome, I was able to identify unique 'genes' for some of the strains. One of these (actually several were, ...
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Evolutionary speaking, what are the constraints on having new mutations?
Evolutionary speaking, some mutations lead to better fitness of an organism and its adaptation to the environment changes, but I was wondering if there are some constraints on having new mutations. ...
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