Approximate statistics of gapped alignments

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-112

  Mott, Richard ^a   Tribe, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment; Probability; Sequences; Significance

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032943842     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.1999.6.91     Document Type: Article

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