On prokaryotes' clustering based on curvature distribution

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue , 2006, Pages 275-284

  Kozobay Avraham, L ^a   Bolshoy, A ^a   Volkovich, Z ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b ORT BRAUDE COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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EID: 33748905554     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-33880-2_28     Document Type: Article

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