SimMLST: Simulation of multi-locus sequence typing data under a neutral model

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1442-1444

  Didelot, Xavier ^a   Lawson, Daniel ^b   Falush, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE CONVERSION; GENEALOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 65649111550     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp145     Document Type: Article

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