OrthoCluster: A new tool for mining synteny blocks and applications in comparative genomics

Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2008 - 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 656-667

  Zeng, Xinghuo ^a   Pei, Jian ^a   Vergara, Ismael A ^a   Nesbitt, Matthew J ^a   Wang, Ke ^a   Chen, Nansheng ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS ANALYSIS; GENE DUPLICATIONS; SYNTENY BLOCKS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 43349085865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1353343.1353423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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