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PATRIC 2.0

Ammerman, N. C., J. J. Gillespie, A. F. Neuwald, B. W. Sobral and A. F. Azad (2009). “A typhus group-specific protease defies reductive evolution in rickettsiae.“ J Bacteriol 191(24): 7609-7613. doi:  10.1128/JB.01077-09. PMID: 19820087. PMCID: PMC2786609.

Ananiadou, S., D. Sullivan, W. Black, G. A. Levow, J. J. Gillespie, C. Mao, S. Pyysalo, B. Kolluru, J. Tsujii and B. Sobral (2011). “Named Entity Recognition for Bacterial Type IV Secretion Systems.” PLoS One 6(3): e14780. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014780. PMID: 21468321. PMCID: PMC3066171.

Aziz RK, D. S., Disz T, Edwards RA, Henry CS, et al. (2012). “SEED Servers: High-Performance Access to the SEED Genomes, Annotations, and Metabolic Models.” PloS ONE 7(10): e48053. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048053.

Brennan P.J., R. Brosch, B. Birren and B. Sobral (2013). “TBCAP; tuberculosis annotation project.” Tuberculosis. 16 January 2013. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.11.013 PMID: 23332402.

Canals, R., X. Q. Xia, C. Fronick, S. W. Clifton, B. M. Ahmer, H. L. Andrews-Polymenis, S. Porwollik and M. McClelland (2012). “High-throughput comparison of gene fitness among related bacteria.“ BMC Genomics 13(1): 212. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-212. PMID: 22646920.

Chen J.W., J. Scaria, C. Mao, B. Sobral, S. Zhang, T. Lawley and Y.F Chang (2013). “Proteomic comparison of historic and recently emerged hypervirulent Clostridium difficile strains.” J Proteome Res. 2013 Jan 8. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1021/pr3007528 PMID:  23298230.

Dreher-Lesnick, S. M., S. M. Ceraul, S. C. Lesnick, J. J. Gillespie, J. M. Anderson, R. C. Jochim, J. G. Valenzuela and A. F. Azad (2009). “Analysis of Rickettsia typhi-infected and uninfected cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) midgut cDNA libraries: deciphering molecular pathways involved in host response to R. typhi infection.“ Insect Mol Biol. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2009.00978.x. PMID: 20017753. PMCID: PMC3179627.

Driscoll, T., J.J. Gillespie, E.K. Nordberg, A.F Azad, and B.W. Sobral (2013). Bacterial DNA sifted from the Trichoplax adhaerens (Animalia:Placozoa) genome project reveals a putative rickettsial endosymbiont. Genome Biol Evol 5(4): 621-645.  doi: 10.1093/gbe/evt036. PMID:  23475938

Driscoll, T., J. L. Gabbard, C. Mao, O. Dalay, M. Shukla, C. C. Freifeld, A. G. Hoen, J. S. Brownstein and B. W. Sobral (2011). “Integration and visualization of host-pathogen data related to infectious diseases.“ Bioinformatics 27(16): 2279-2287. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr391. PMID: 21712250. PMCID: PMC3150046.

Dyer, M. D., C. Neff, M. Dufford, C. G. Rivera, D. Shattuck, J. Bassaganya-Riera, T. M. Murali and B. W. Sobral (2010). “The human-bacterial pathogen protein interaction networks of Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, and Yersinia pestis.“ PLoS One 5(8): e12089. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012089. PMID: 20711500. PMCID: PMC2918508.

Gillespie, J. J., V. Joardar, K. P. Williams, T. Driscoll, J. B. Hostetler, E. Nordberg, M. Shukla, B. Walenz, C. A. Hill, V. M. Nene, A. F. Azad, B. W. Sobral and E. Caler (2012). “A Rickettsia genome overrun by mobile genetic elements provides insight into the acquisition of genes characteristic of an obligate intracellular lifestyle.“ J Bacteriol 194(2): 376-394. doi: 10.1128/ JB.06244-11. PMID: 22056929. PMCID: PMC3256634.

Gillespie, J. J., Nordberg, E., Azad, A.F., Sobral, B.W. (2012). Phylogeny and Comparative Genomics: The Shifting Landscape in the Genomics Era. Intracellular Pathogens II: Rickettsiales. A. F. Azad, Palmer, G. H., American Society of Microbiology. NLMID: 101571352.

Gillespie, J. J., A. R. Wattam, S. A. Cammer, J. L. Gabbard, M. P. Shukla, O. Dalay, T. Driscoll, D. Hix, S. P. Mane, C. Mao, E. K. Nordberg, M. Scott, J. R. Schulman, E. E. Snyder, D. E. Sullivan, C. Wang, A. Warren, K. P. Williams, T. Xue, H. S. Yoo, C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, R. Will, R. W. Kenyon and B. W. Sobral (2011). “PATRIC: the comprehensive bacterial bioinformatics resource with a focus on human pathogenic species.“ Infect Immun 79(11): 4286-4298. doi:10.1128/IAI.00207-11. PMID:  21896772. PMCID:  PMC 3257917.

Gillespie, J. J., K. A. Brayton, K. P. Williams, M. A. Diaz, W. C. Brown, A. F. Azad and B. W. Sobral (2010). “Phylogenomics reveals a diverse Rickettsiales type IV secretion system.” Infect Immun 78(5): 1809-1823. doi:  10.1128/IAI.01384-09. PMID: 20176788. PMCID: PMC2863512.

Kaur, S. J., M. S. Rahman, N. C. Ammerman, M. Beier-Sexton, S. M. Ceraul, J. J. Gillespie and A. F. Azad (2012). “TolC-Dependent Secretion of an Ankyrin Repeat-Containing Protein of Rickettsia typhi.” J Bacteriol 194(18): 4920-4932. doi: 10.1128/JB.00793-12. PMID: 22773786. PMCID: PMC3430354.

Lew, J.M., M. C. Mao, M. Shukla, A. Warren, R. Will, D. Kuznetsov, I. Xenarios, B.D. Robertson, S.V. Gordon, D. Schnappinger, S.T. Cole and B. Sobral (2013). “Database resources for the tuberculosis community.” Tuberculosis. 17 January 2013. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.11.003 PMID: 23332401.

Mao C., M. Shukla, G. Larrouy-Maumus, F.L. Dix, L.A. Kelley, M.J. Sternberg, B.W. Sobral, L.P. de Carvalho (2013). “Functional assignment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteome revealed by genome-scale fold-recognition.” Tuberculosis. 31 December 2012. [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.11.008 PMID: 23287603.

Pyysalo, S., T. Ohta, R. Rak, D. Sullivan, C. Mao, C. Wang, B. Sobral, J. Tsujii and S. Ananiadou (2012). “Overview of the ID, EPI and REL tasks of BioNLP Shared Task 2011.” BMC Bioinformatics. doi:  10.1186/1471-2105-13-S11-S2. PMID: 22759456. PMCID: PMC3384257.

Pyysalo, S. O., T., Cho, H., Sullivan, D. Mao, C. (2010). Towards event extraction from full texts on infectious diseases. 2010 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Stroudsburg, PA, USA. (View Full Paper at the Association of Computational Linguistics Website).

Rajasekaran, P., J. C. Alexander, M. N. Seleem, N. Jain, N. Sriranganathan, A. R. Wattam, J. C. Setubal and S. M. Boyle (2013). “Peptide nucleic acids inhibit growth of Brucella suis in pure culture and in infected murine macrophages.”  Int J Antimicrob Ag (2013).  Article in Press doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2012.11.017

Rak, R., A. Rowley, W. Black and S. Ananiadou (2012). “Argo: an integrative, interactive, text mining-based workbench supporting curation.“ Database (Oxford) 2012: bas010. doi:10.1093/database/bas010. PMID: 22434844. PMCID: PMC 3308166.

Sears, K. T., S. M. Ceraul, J. J. Gillespie, E. D. Allen, Jr., V. L. Popov, N. C. Ammerman, M. S. Rahman and A. F. Azad (2012). “Surface proteome analysis and characterization of surface cell antigen (Sca) or autotransporter family of Rickettsia typhi.“ PLoS Pathog 8(8): e1002856. doi:  10.1371/journal.ppat.1002856. PMID: 22912578. PMCID: PMC3415449.

Sobral, B. and A. Wattam (2011). Comparative genomics and phylogenomics of the Brucella. Brucella: Molecular microbiology and Genetics. I. L.-G. D. O’Callaghan, Horizon Scientific Press.

Sullivan, D. E., J. L. Gabbard, Jr., M. Shukla and B. Sobral (2010). “Data Integration for Dynamic and Sustainable Systems Biology Resources: Challenges and Lessons Learned.“ Chem Biodivers 7(5): 1124-1141. doi: 10.1002/cbdv.200900317. PMID: 20491070. PMCID: PMC2894471.

Sutten, E. L., J. Norimine, P. A. Beare, R. A. Heinzen, J. E. Lopez, K. Morse, K. A. Brayton, J. J. Gillespie and W. C. Brown (2010). “Anaplasma marginale type IV secretion system proteins VirB2, VirB7, VirB11, and VirD4 are immunogenic components of a protective bacterial membrane vaccine.“ Infect Immun 78(3): 1314-1325. doi: 10.1128/IAI.01207-09. PMID: 20065028. PMCID: PMC2825951.

Wattam, A. R., T. J. Inzana, K. P. Williams, S. P. Mane, M. Shukla, N. F. Almeida, A. W. Dickerman, S. Mason, I. Moriyon, D. O’Callaghan, A. M. Whatmore, B. W. Sobral, R. V. Tiller, A. R. Hoffmaster, M. A. Frace, C. De Castro, A. Molinaro, S. M. Boyle, B. K. De and J. C. Setubal (2012). “Comparative genomics of early-diverging Brucella strains reveals a novel lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis pathway.“ MBio 3(5). doi: 10.1128/mBio.00246-12. PMID: 22930339. PMCID: PMC3445970.

Williams, K. P., J. J. Gillespie, B. W. Sobral, E. K. Nordberg, E. E. Snyder, J. M. Shallom and A. W. Dickerman (2010). “Phylogeny of gammaproteobacteria.“ J Bacteriol 192(9): 2305-2314. doi: 10.1128/JB.01480-09. PMID: 20207755. PMCID: PMC2863478.

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PATRIC 1.0

Driscoll, T., M.D. Dyer, T.M. Murali and B.W. Sobral (2009). “PIG–the pathogen interaction gateway.” Nucleic Acids Res 37(Database issue): p. D647-50.  doi:  10.1093/nar/gkn799 PMID: 18984614 PMCID:  PMC2686532

Dyer, M.D., T.M. Murali and B.W. Sobral (2008). “The landscape of human proteins interacting with viruses and other pathogens.”  PLoS Pathog 4(2): p. e32.  doi:  10.1371/journal.ppat.0040032  PMID: 18282095 PMCID:  PMC2242834

Dyer, M.D., T.M. Murali and B.W. Sobral (2007). “Computational prediction of host-pathogen protein-protein interactions.” Bioinformatics 23(13): p. i159-66.  doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm208 PMID: 17646292

Gillespie, J.J, N.C. Ammerman, S.M. Dreher-Lesnick, M.S. Rahman, M.J. Worley, J.C. Setubal, B.S. Sobral and A.F. Azad (2009). “An anomalous type IV secretion system in Rickettsia is evolutionarily conserved.” PLoS ONE 4(3): p. e4833.  doi:  10.1371/journal.pone.0004833 PMID: 19279686 PMCID:  PMC2653234

Gillespie, J.J., N.C. Ammerman, M. Beier-Sexton, B.S. Sobral and A.F. Azad (2009). “Louse- and flea-borne rickettsioses: biological and genomic analyses.” Vet Res 40(2): p. 12. doi: 10.1051/vetres:2008050  PMID: 19036234  PMCID: PMC2695025

Gillespie, J.J., K. Williams, M. Shukla, E.E. Snyder, E.K. Nordberg, S.M. Ceraul, C. Dharmanolla, D. Rainey, J. Soneja, J.M. Shallom, N.D. Vishnubhat, R. Wattam, A. Purkayastha, M. Czar, O. Crasta, J.C. Setubal, A.F. Azad and B.S. Sobral (2008). “Rickettsia phylogenomics: unwinding the intricacies of obligate intracellular life.” PLoS One 3(4): p. e2018.  doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002018 PMID: 19194535 PMCID:  PMC2635572

Gillespie, J.J., M.S. Beier, M.S. Rahman, N.C. Ammerman, J.M. Shallom, A. Purkayastha, B.S. Sobral and A.F. Azad (2007).  “Plasmids and rickettsial evolution: insight from Rickettsia felis.” PLoS One 2(3): p. e266.  doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000266 PMID:  17342200 PMCID:  PMC1800911

Snyder E.E., N. Kampanya, J. Lu, E.K. Nordberg, H.R. Karur, M. Shukla, J. Soneja, Y. Tian, T. Xue, H. Yoo, F. Zhang, C. Dharmanolla, N.V. Dongre, J.J. Gillespie, J. Hamelius, M. Hance, K.I. Huntington, D. Jukneliene, J. Koziski, L. Mackasmiel, S.P. Mane, V. Nguyen, A. Purkayastha, J. Shallom, G. Yu, Y. Guo, J. Gabbard, D. Hix, A.F. Azad, S.C. Baker, S.M. Boyle, Y. Khudyakov, X.J. Meng, C. Rupprecht, J. Vinje, O.R. Crasta, M.J. Czar, A. Dickerman, J.D. Eckart, R. Kenyon, R. Will, J.C. Setubal and B.W. Sobral (2007). “PATRIC: the VBI PathoSystems Resource Integration Center.” Nucleic Acids Res 35(1). doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl858. PMID: 17142235. PMCID: PMC1669763.

Wattam, A.R., K.P. Williams, E.E. Snyder, N.F. Almeida, M. Shukla, A.W. Dickerman, O.R. Crasta, R. Kenyon, J. Lu, J.M. Shallom, H. Yoo, T.A. Ficht, R.M. Tsolis, C. Munk, R. Tapia, C.S. Han, J.C. Detter, D. Bruce, T.S. Brettin, B.W. Sobral, S.M. Boyle and J.C. Setubal (2009). “Analysis of ten Brucella genomes reveals evidence for horizontal gene transfer despite a preferred intracellular lifestyle.” J Bacteriol 191(11): p. 3569-79.  doi: 10.1128/JB.01767-08 PMID: 19346311 PMCID: PMC2681906

Yu, G.X., E.E. Snyder, S.M. Boyle, O.R. Crasta, M. Czar, S.P. Mane, A. Purkayastha, B. Sobral and J.C. Setubal (2007). “A versatile computational pipeline for bacterial genome annotation improvement and comparative analysis, with Brucella as a use case.” Nucleic Acids Res 35(12): p. 3953-62.  doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm377 PMID: 17553834 PMCID:  PMC1919506