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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis research from University of New South Wales outlined
December 16th, 2008
"spolTools is a collection of online programs designed to manipulate and analyze spoligotype datasets of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex," scientists in Sydney, Australia report. "These tools are integrated into a repository currently containing 1179 spoligotypes and 6278 isolates across 30 datasets. Users can search this database to export for external use or to pass on to the integrated tools," wrote C. Tang and colleagues, University of New South Wales. The researchers concluded: "These tools include the computation of basic population genetic quantities, the visualization of clusters of spoligotype patterns based on an estimated...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-12-16)
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