T-BAPS: A Bayesian statistical tool for comparison of microbial communities using terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) data

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Tang, Jing ^a   Tao, Jinglun ^b   Urakawa, Hidetoshi ^b   Corander, Jukka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian modelling; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Microbial communities; T RFLP; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHARACTER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROFLORA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 36749034900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1303     Document Type: Article

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