Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) elements are used in CRISPRcompar as a genetic marker for comparative and evolutionary analysis of closely related bacterial strains.
The Meningococcus Genome Informatics Platform (MGIP) is a suite of computational tools for the analysis of multilocus sequence typing data. Input DNA sequence files are analyzed to provide allele calls, and to characterize the specific sequence type and clonal complex of the Neisseria meningitidis strain.
MIRU-VNTRplus allows users to analyze genotyping data of their Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains either alone or in comparison with the reference DB of strains. The web server also includes tools to search for similar strains, phylogenetic analysis and mapping of geographic information.
MLST (Multi Locus Sequence Typing) is a nucleotide sequence based approach for the unambiguous characterisation of isolates of bacteria and other organisms using the sequences of internal fragments of seven house-keeping genes.