Scaling laws and similarity detection in sequence alignment with gaps

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 115-141

  Drasdo, Dirk ^a,c   Hwa, Terence ^b   Lässig, Michael ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment algorithm; Evolution model; Homology; Longest common subsequence; Sequence comparison

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; EVOLUTION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0034048879     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/10665270050081414     Document Type: Review

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