Score functions for determining regional conservation in two-species local alignments

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 395-411

  Roskin, Krishna M ^a   Diekhans, Mark ^a   Haussler, David ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral repeat; Comparative genomics; Context dependent evolutionary models; Cpg effect; Neutral evolution

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CPG ISLAND; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; ROC CURVE;

RODENTIA;

EID: 3142619330     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1066527041410328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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