Identifying candidate disease genes with high-performance computing

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-24

  Braun, Terry A ^a   Scheetz, Todd E ^a   Webster, Gregg ^a   Clark, Abe ^b   Stone, Edwin M ^a   Sheffield, Val C ^c   Casavant, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Biological databases; Disease gene discovery; High performance computing; Knowledge discovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MICROORGANISMS;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL DATABASES; DISEASE GENE DISCOVERY; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0043268744     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024417200364     Document Type: Article

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