A comparison of common programming languages used in bioinformatics

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fourment, Mathieu ^a   Gillings, Michael R ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS METHODS; LINES OF CODE; MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS; MEMORY USAGE; NEIGHBOR JOINING; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SOURCE CODES; TREE CONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER MEMORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 40749084477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-82     Document Type: Article

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