Accommodating error analysis in comparison and clustering of molecular fingerprints

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-168

  Salamon, Hugh ^a,d   Segal, Mark R ^a   De Leon, Alfredo Ponce ^b   Small, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW;

EID: 0031862413     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0402.980203     Document Type: Review

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