Methods for estimating human endogenous retrovirus activities from EST databases

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Oja, Merja ^a,b   Peltonen, Jaakko ^b   Blomberg, Jonas ^c   Kaski, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES;

EST DATABASE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; EXPRESSION LEVELS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; MIXTURE MODEL; NORMAL TISSUE; OPEN READING FRAME; RELATIVE ACTIVITIES;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES;

EID: 45149131625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-S2-S11     Document Type: Article

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