%0 Journal Article
%T The large-scale blast score ratio (LS-BSR) pipeline: a method to rapidly compare genetic content between bacterial genomes
%A Jason W. Sahl
%A J. Gregory Caporaso
%A David A. Rasko
%A Paul Keim
%J PeerJ
%D 2015
%I 
%R 10.7717/peerj.332
%X Background. As whole genome sequence data from bacterial isolates becomes cheaper to generate, computational methods are needed to correlate sequence data with biological observations. Here we present the large-scale BLAST score ratio (LS-BSR) pipeline, which rapidly compares the genetic content of hundreds to thousands of bacterial genomes, and returns a matrix that describes the relatedness of all coding sequences (CDSs) in all genomes surveyed. This matrix can be easily parsed in order to identify genetic relationships between bacterial genomes. Although pipelines have been published that group peptides by sequence similarity, no other software performs the rapid, large-scale, full-genome comparative analyses carried out by LS-BSR.
%K Genomics
%K Bioinformatics
%K Microbiology
%K Pathogens
%K Comparative genomics
%U https://peerj.com/articles/332/