An optimal DNA segmentation based on the MDL principle

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-17

  Szpankowski, Wojciech ^a   Ren, Wenhui ^a   Szpankowski, Lukasz ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA segmentation; MDL principle; model selection; piecewise stationary sequences; stochastic modelling; universal data compression

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME MAP; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RIBOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33750237338     PISSN: 17445485     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2005.006899     Document Type: Article

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