Virus Classification by Pairwise Sequence Comparison (PASC)

Encyclopedia of Virology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 342-348

  Bao, Y ^a   Kapustin, Y ^a   Tatusova, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment identity; Demarcation; Histogram of identities; NCBI; PASC; Sequence alignment; Taxonomic classification; Viral genomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749131626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012374410-4.00710-X     Document Type: Chapter

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