TETRA: A web-service and a stand-alone program for the analysis and comparison of tetranucleotide usage patterns in DNA sequences

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Teeling, Hanno ^a   Waldmann, Jost ^a   Lombardot, Thierry ^a   Bauer, Margarete ^a   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CENTRAL PROBLEMS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINATORY POWER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC POTENTIAL; GENOMIC FRAGMENTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BATCH DATA PROCESSING; CLONING; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MICROORGANISMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

WEB SERVICES;

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BATCH PROCESS; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA CONTENT; DNA SEQUENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MICROBIAL GENETICS; PLOTS AND CURVES; PROKARYOTE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SHIGELLA; SINORHIZOBIUM; YERSINIA;

PROKARYOTA;

BASE COMPOSITION; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERNET; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGELLA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SOFTWARE; YERSINIA;

EID: 13244253777     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-163     Document Type: Article

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