MUSCLE: A multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Edgar, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROCOMPUTER; PUBLICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TIME; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13244255415     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-113     Document Type: Article

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