SCCmecKey^PC – A noncommercial product

Tools applied: BLAST related Bioinformatics

SCCmec Project:

A bioinformatic project on the automated identification and annotation of the virulence cassette SCCmec in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) genomes.

Target group: People who read MRSA articles and with no programming experience.

Research Article, SCCmecKey, 16 pages (pdf) Suppl. File (pdf) Processed

SCCmecKey^PC Version 0.3.03 (Last updated May 2016):

This Version can preclassify the SCCmec type (i.e. typing SCCmec with a decreased amount of false positives and false negatives compared to Version 0.2).

Short presentations (video):

A SCCmecKey^PC to Large Jobs with Several Whole Genome Sequences (Type 3, 6 min.) Click here

Activate the SCCmecKey^PC and Analyze Your Genome Sequence (Type 2, 8 min.) Click here

Activate the SCCmecKey^PC and Analyze Your Genome Sequence (Type 1, 8 min.) Click here

Instructions (pdf)

A few SCCmec-types (pdf)

Former SCCmecKey^PC Versions

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: I thanks the 

Molecular Microbial Ecology Group (The University of Copenhagen), MRSA Knowledge Center (Hvidovre Hospital), and The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (Technical University of Denmark) for providing me with information and supervision.

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