Computational aspects of systematic biology

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 186-195

  Lilburn, Timothy G ^b   Harrison, Scott H ^b   Cole, James R ^b   Garrity, George M ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Databases; Nomenclature; Persistent identifiers; Semantics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ELECTRONICS; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TAXONOMY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 33748455883     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbl005     Document Type: Review

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