Statistical significance in biological sequence analysis

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2-24

  Mitrophanov, Alexander Yu ^b   Borodovsky, Mark ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

E value; Multiple alignment; P value; Pairwise alignment; Probabilistic model; Profile; Sequence analysis; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 33748809505     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbk001     Document Type: Review

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