REEF: Searching regionally enriched features in genomes

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Coppe, Alessandro ^a   Danieli, Gian Antonio ^a   Bortoluzzi, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTIC GENOME; FALSE DISCOVERY RATE; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; FUNCTIONAL DNAS; GENOME ORGANIZATION; GENOMIC POSITIONS; GENOMIC REGIONS; TEST STATISTICS;

GENE EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

REEFS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ALGORITHM; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750619890     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-453     Document Type: Article

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