Empirical statistical estimates for sequence similarity searches

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-84

  Pearson, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FASTA; Sequence similarity; Smith Waterman; Statistical estimates

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032512799     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1525     Document Type: Article

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