Logarithmic gap costs decrease alignment accuracy

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cartwright, Reed A ^a,b  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; GAP SIZE; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SEQUENCE PAIR;

ALIGNMENT;

COSTS;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33846602331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-527     Document Type: Article

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