BURST - Based Upon Related Sequence Types

Please note a much improved version of BURST - eBURSTv2 is available and can be found here - eBURST

The BURST analysis can be used to:
1. Divide strains into groups according to their allelic profiles.
2. Count the number of Single Locus Variants (SLV), Double Locus Variants (DLV) and Satellites (SAT) for each sequence type (ST).
3. Identify the potential Ancestral Type (AT).
4. For more details of this analysis, please contact Edward Feil .or see the readme file

Format for input data:

The data should be rows of numbers separated by spaces or commas with the sequence type in the first column and followed by the allelic profile in subsequent columns. The analysis assumes not more than 1000 sequence types. There can be several examples of each sequence type which can be just entered as extra (identical) rows in the file. Please contact David Aanensen  if you wish to perform analyses on larger data sets. Please look here for some example data .

Explanation of options:

The group definition refers to the number of loci the members of the group need to have in common to belong to the same group. You can also change the number of loci in the data set. If you are using normal MLST data, the default values are recommended.

Note that you can only get graphical output if: number of loci - group definition < 3.