Bellerophon: A program to detect chimeric sequences in multiple sequence alignments

Bioinformatics

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2317-2319

  Huber, Thomas ^a   Faulkner, Geoffrey ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHIMERA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BELLEROPHON;

EID: 5044240973     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth226     Document Type: Article

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