The most probable annotation problem in HMMs and its application to bioinformatics

Journal of Computer and System Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1060-1077

  Brejová, Broňa ^b   Brown, Daniel G ^a   Vinař, Tomáš ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Program on Infrastructure Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Gene finding; Hidden Markov models; NP hardness; Sequence annotation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PROTEINS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE FINDING; SEQUENCE ANNOTATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 34547119578     PISSN: 00220000     EISSN: 10902724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcss.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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