RASCAL: Rapid scanning and correction of multiple sequence alignments

Bioinformatics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1155-1161

  Thompson, J D ^a   Thierry, J C ^a   Poch, O ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CELL RECEPTOR; PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038391401     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg133     Document Type: Article

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