2021
RCandy: an R package for visualizing homologous recombinations in bacterial genomes
Chaguza C, Tonkin-Hill G, Lo S, Hadfield J, Croucher N, Harris S, Bentley S. RCandy: an R package for visualizing homologous recombinations in bacterial genomes. Bioinformatics 2021, 38: 1450-1451. PMID: 34864895, PMCID: PMC8826011, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab814.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBacterial genomesHomologous recombinationRecombination eventsImportant evolutionary processPlatform-independent R packageGenomic sequence diversityValuable biological insightsSuch recombination eventsR packageGenomic regionsSequence diversityBiological insightsEvolutionary processesGenomeSupplementary dataRecombinationMIT licenseProkaryotesBioinformaticsDiversityBacteriaMacOSXAdaptation
2015
Mechanisms and impact of genetic recombination in the evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Chaguza C, Cornick JE, Everett DB. Mechanisms and impact of genetic recombination in the evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Computational And Structural Biotechnology Journal 2015, 13: 241-247. PMID: 25904996, PMCID: PMC4404416, DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2015.03.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGenetic recombinationWhole-genome sequence dataKey evolutionary mechanismGenome sequence dataPopulation geneticsEvolutionary mechanismsGenetic variationSequence dataExogenous DNASelective pressureSpontaneous mutationsHuman diseasesEvolution studiesPneumococcal adaptationRecombinationAdaptive immune responsesComputational toolsGenomeEvolutionGeneticsOrganismsImmune responseRapid influxDNABacterium