Optimization of ribosomal RNA profile alignments

Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 332-341

  O'Brien, Emmet A ^a   Notredame, Cedric ^b   Higgins, Desmond G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; TRITICUM DICOCCON;

EID: 0031857097     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.4.332     Document Type: Article

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