TY - JOUR AU - Chiapello, Hélène AU - Gendrault, Annie AU - Caron, Christophe AU - Blum, Jérome AU - Petit, Marie-Agnès AU - El Karoui, Meriem PY - 2008 DA - 2008/11/27 TI - MOSAIC: an online database dedicated to the comparative genomics of bacterial strains at the intra-species level JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - 498 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - The recent availability of complete sequences for numerous closely related bacterial genomes opens up new challenges in comparative genomics. Several methods have been developed to align complete genomes at the nucleotide level but their use and the biological interpretation of results are not straightforward. It is therefore necessary to develop new resources to access, analyze, and visualize genome comparisons. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-498 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-9-498 ID - Chiapello2008 ER -