Strategies for reliable exploitation of evolutionary concepts in high throughput biology

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 121-137

  Levasseur, Anthony ^a   Pontarotti, Pierre ^a   Poch, Olivier ^b   Thompson, Julie D ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Evolutionary informatics; Functional annotation; Information network; Phylogenetic inference; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DRUG RESEARCH; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 44249108083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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