DNA probability profiles: Examples from the Treponema pallidum genome

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 279-289

  Poland, Douglas ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA statistical mechanics; Probability profiles; Sequence distribution functions; Thermal unwinding

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOPOLYMER;

ALGORITHM; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ALGORITHMS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOME; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0038354495     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4622(02)00382-4     Document Type: Article

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