MLIP: Using multiple processors to compute the posterior probability of linkage

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2008, Pages

  Govil, Manika ^a   Segre, Alberto M ^b   Vieland, Veronica J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION OF INTEGRALS; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE PROCESSORS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL CALCULATIONS; TOTAL COMPUTATION TIME;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MICROPROCESSOR; PROBABILITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 47249122281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-S6-S2     Document Type: Article

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