Uncertainty in homology inferences: Assessing and improving genomic sequence alignment

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 298-309

  Lunter, Gerton ^a   Rocco, Andrea ^a   Mimouni, Naila ^a   Heger, Andreas ^a   Caldeira, Alexandre ^a   Hein, Jotun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 39049145326     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6725608     Document Type: Article

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