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.
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.