Combining evidence using p-values: Application to sequence homology searches

Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 48-54

  Bailey, Timothy L ^a   Gribskov, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 0031877016     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.1.48     Document Type: Article

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