Georgios S. Vernikos

The complete genome, comparative and functional analysis of Stenotrophomonas maltophiliareveals an organism heavily shielded by drug resistance determinants (2008)

Crossman, Lisa C, Gould, Virginia C, Dow, J Maxwell, Vernikos, Georgios S, Okazaki, Aki, Sebaihia, Mohammed, ...

Abstract Background Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a nosocomial opportunistic pathogen of the Xanthomonadaceae. The organism has been isolated from both clinical and soil environments in addition to...

Genetic flux over time in the Salmonellalineage (2007)

Vernikos, Georgios S, Thomson, Nicholas R, Parkhill, Julian

Abstract Background DNA sequences that are shared between closely related organisms while being absent from their common ancestor and from sister lineages of that ancestor are likely to have been...

GeneViTo: Visualizing gene-product functional and structural features in genomic datasets (2003)

Vernikos, Georgios S, Gkogkas, Christos G, Promponas, Vasilis J, Hamodrakas, Stavros J

Abstract Background The availability of increasing amounts of sequence data from completely sequenced genomes boosts the development of new computational methods for automated genome annotation and...

Genetic flux over time in the Salmonella lineage

Vernikos, Georgios S, Thomson, Nicholas R, Parkhill, Julian

From a whole-genome comparative analysis of Salmonella, Escherichia coli and Shigella strains, the relative time of insertion of putative horizontally acquired genes in three Salmonella strains were...

A Common Genomic Framework for a Diverse Assembly of Plasmids in the Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria

Crossman, Lisa C., Castillo-Ramírez, Santiago, McAnnula, Craig, Lozano, Luis, Vernikos, Georgios S., Acosta, José L., ...

This work centres on the genomic comparisons of two closely-related nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria, Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae 3841 and Rhizobium etli CFN42. These strains maintain a...

Resolving the structural features of genomic islands: A machine learning approach

Vernikos, Georgios S., Parkhill, Julian

Large inserts of horizontally acquired DNA that contain functionally related genes with limited phylogenetic distribution are often referred to as genomic islands (GIs), and structural definitions of...