Improved gapped alignment in BLAST

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 116-129

  Cameron, Michael ^a   Williams, Hugh E ^a   Cannane, Adam ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BLAST; Dynamic programming; Homology search; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GENES; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SERVERS; WEBSITES;

BLAST; GAPPED ALIGNMENT; HOMOLOGY SEARCH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; ECONOMICS; GENETIC DATABASE; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 14744270579     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2004.32     Document Type: Article

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