CoaSim: A flexible environment for simulating genetic data under coalescent models

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Mailund, Thomas ^a,b   Schierup, Mikkel H ^a   Pedersen, Christian N S ^a   Mechlenborg, Peter J M ^a   Madsen, Jesper N ^b   Schauser, Leif ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Bioinformatics ApS ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED APPLICATIONS; ASSOCIATION MAPPING; COALESCENT PROCESS; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; EVOLUTIONARY FACTORS; FLEXIBLE ENVIRONMENTS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TOOLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

GENETIC MARKER;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 27644455774     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-252     Document Type: Article

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