PopABC: A program to infer historical demographic parameters

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 2747-2749

  Lopes, Joao S ^a   Balding, David ^b   Beaumont, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349978987     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp487     Document Type: Article

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