MsatAllele-1.0: An R package to visualize the binning of microsatellite alleles

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 394-397

  Alberto, Filipe ^a  

^a Centro de Ciências Do Mar Do Algarve   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bin; Database; Microsatellite markers; Plotting; Scoring errors

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERROR; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 65349166439     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esn110     Document Type: Article

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