A method for evaluating the quality of string dissimilarity measures and clustering algorithms for EST clustering

Proceedings - Fourth IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 301-309

  Zimmermann, Judith ^a   Lipták, Zsuzsanna ^b   Hazelhurst, Scott ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; EST clustering; Simulated data; String similarity and dissimilarity measures; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS (EST); TRANSCRIPTION;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DNA; RNA; USER INTERFACES;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 4544295407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2004.1317357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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