DNA motif alignment by evolving a population of Markov chains

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Bi, Chengpeng ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DESIGN; CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENTS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; METROPOLIS-HASTINGS; PROPOSAL DISTRIBUTION; SITE DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; BIOINFORMATICS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; DNA; MARKOV CHAINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 60849096092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S13     Document Type: Article

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