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Main Tasks

Development of application programming interfaces to the BIGSdb genomics platform, analysis of Campylobacter isolates, phylogenetic data analysis.

Relevant publications

Dingle, K. E. and Colles, F. M. and Wareing, D. R. and Ure, R. and Fox, A. J. and Bolton, F. E. and Bootsma, H. J. and Willems, R. J. and Urwin, R. and Maiden, M. C. Multilocus sequence typing system for Campylobacter jejuni. J Clin Microbiol 2001 39 (1) : 14--23. [pmid]
Dingle, Kate E. and Colles, Frances M. and Ure, Roisin and Wagenaar, Jaap A. and Duim, Birgitta and Bolton, Frederick J. and Fox, Andrew J. and Wareing, David R A. and Maiden, Martin C J. Molecular characterization of Campylobacter jejuni clones: a basis for epidemiologic investigation. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 8 (9) : 949--955. [pmid]
Jolley, K. A. and Bliss, C. M. and Bennett, J. S. and Bratcher, H. B. and Brehony, C. and Colles, F. M. and Wimalarathna, H. and Harrison, O. B. and Sheppard, S. K. and Cody, A. J. and Maiden, M. C. Ribosomal multilocus sequence typing: universal characterization of bacteria from domain to strain Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) 2012 158 (Pt 4) : 1005--1015. [pmid]
Jolley, Keith A. and Maiden, Martin C J. BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level. BMC Bioinformatics 2010 11 : 595. [pmid]

Contact

Martin C.J. Maiden, PhD., FRCPath
Professor of Molecular Epidemiology

Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford
OX1 3PS
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 1865 271284
Fax: +44 1865 281275

Email
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Team

Martin C.J. Maiden

Keith Jolley

James Bray