Bioinformatics approaches and resources for single nucleotide polymorphism functional analysis

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-56

  Mooney, Sean ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate gene; Genome; Human variation; Mutation; Protein structure function; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 17244367767     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/6.1.44     Document Type: Review

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