Bioinformatics Vol. 17 no. 12 2001
Pages 1230-1231
© 2001 Oxford University Press
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Sequence type analysis and recombinational tests (START)
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Received on April 23, 2001
; revised on July 19, 2001
; accepted on July 19, 2001
Summary: The 32-bit Windows application START is implemented using Visual Basic and C++ and performs analyses to aid in the investigation of bacterial population structure using multilocus sequence data. These analyses include data summary, lineage assignment, and tests for recombination and selection.
Availability: START is available at http://outbreak.ceid.ox.ac.uk/software.htm.
Contact: keith.jolley{at}ceid.ox.ac.uk
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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