Detecting microsatellites in genome data: Variance in definitions and bioinformatic approaches cause systematic bias

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1-6

  Merkel, Angelika ^a   Gemmell, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Array length; Definition; Genome; Microsatellites; Short tandem repeats; Study bias

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 41049084843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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