Quality estimation of multiple sequence alignments by Bayesian hypothesis testing

Bioinformatics

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2488-2490

  Tomovic, Andrija ^a   Oakeley, Edward J ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA SEQUENCE; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 34548704865     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm366     Document Type: Article

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