Amino acid distribution in meteorites: Diagenesis, extraction methods, and standard metrics in the search for extraterrestrial biosignatures

Astrobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-33

  McDonald, Gene D ^a   Storrie Lombardi, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Kinohi Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical cluster analysis; Meteorite samples; Principal component analysis; Protein amino acids; Standard metric; Stochastic probabilistic artificial neural networks

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROCLIMATE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; METEOROIDS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33645822086     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.6.17     Document Type: Article

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