Stretch coding and block coding: Two new strategies to represent questionably aligned DNA sequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-199

  Geiger, Daniel L ^a  

^a SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block coding; Character coding; DNA sequence alignment; Homology; Stretch coding; Test of conjunction

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CODING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0036144960     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-001-0001-5     Document Type: Article

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