IWoCS: Analyzing ribosomal intergenic transcribed spacers configuration and taxonomic relationships

摘要

Motivation: Lately the use of 16S - 23S Intergenic Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequences for bacterial typing purposes has increased. The presence of conserved regions like tRNA genes or boxes together with hypervariable regions allows performing intraspecific discrimination of very close bacterial strains. On the other hand this mosaic of variability makes the ITS a sequence difficult to analyze and compare.