The modular structure of informational sequences

BioSystems

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 199-210

  Schmitt, Armin O ^a   Ebeling, Werner ^a   Herzel, Hanspeter ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; DNA sequences; Length distributions; Linguistic units; Literary texts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030047866     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(95)01544-2     Document Type: Article

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