VNTRDB: a bacterial variable number tandem repeat locus database.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on December 14, 2006

Authors

Chia-Hung Chang1, Yu-Chung Chang, Anthony Underwood, Chien-Shun Chiou, Cheng-Yan Kao

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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