GapCoder automates the use of indel characters in phylogenetic analysis

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Young, Nelson D ^a   Healy, John ^b  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0642309746     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-4-6     Document Type: Article

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