Computing Ka and Ks with a consideration of unequal transitional substitutions

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Zhang ^a,b,c   Li, Jun ^b   Yu, Jun ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; PROCEDURES; RICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; ORYZA SATIVA; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33747835539     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-44     Document Type: Article

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