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Unraveling Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic diversity and evolution in Lisbon, Portugal, a highly drug resistant setting

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(2014) James E. Galagan   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Marked Microevolution of a Unique Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain in 17 Years of Ongoing Transmission in a High Risk Population

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Sequence Diversity in the pe_pgrs Genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Independent of Human T Cell Recognition

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A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains

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Diversity and Evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Moving to Whole-Genome-Based Approaches

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QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies

(2013) Alexey Gurevich et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PPE38 of Mycobacterium marinum Triggers the Cross-Talk of Multiple Pathways Involved in the Host Response, As Revealed by Subcellular Quantitative Proteomics

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Genomic analysis identifies targets of convergent positive selection in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

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Improving draft assemblies by iterative mapping and assembly of short reads to eliminate gaps

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The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

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FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

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(2009) Martin Graña et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

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The Influence of Host and Bacterial Genotype on the Development of Disseminated Disease with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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