TY - JOUR AU - Reva, Oleg N. AU - Tümmler, Burkhard PY - 2004 DA - 2004/07/07 TI - Global features of sequences of bacterial chromosomes, plasmids and phages revealed by analysis of oligonucleotide usage patterns JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 90 VL - 5 IS - 1 AB - Oligonucleotide frequencies were shown to be conserved signatures for bacterial genomes, however, the underlying constraints have yet not been resolved in detail. In this paper we analyzed oligonucleotide usage (OU) biases in a comprehensive collection of 155 completely sequenced bacterial chromosomes, 316 plasmids and 104 phages. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-5-90 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-5-90 ID - Reva2004 ER -