The evolutionary computation approach to motif discovery in biological sequences

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn 2005-January, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Lones, Michael A ^a   Tyrrell, Andy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biological sequence understanding; evolutionary computation; motif discovery

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

'CURRENT; BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE UNDERSTANDING; BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCES; CONSERVED RESIDUES; DNA MOTIF; KEY PARTS; MOTIF DISCOVERY; NUCLEOTIDES SEQUENCES; PROTEIN SEQUENCES;

CALCULATIONS;

EID: 34547705781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1102256.1102258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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