Validating the significance of genomic properties of Chi sites from the distribution of all octamers in Escherichia coli

Gene

Volumn 392, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 239-246

  Arakawa, Kazuharu ^a   Uno, Reina ^a   Nakayama, Yoichi ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Homologous recombination; Orientation bias; RecBCD; Strand bias

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; EXONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC MARKERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33947587178     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.12.022     Document Type: Article

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