How Do Variable Substitution Rates Influence Ka and Ks Calculations?

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 116-127

  Wang, Dapeng ^a,b   Zhang, Song ^a,b,c   He, Fuhong ^a,b   Zhu, Jiang ^a,b   Hu, Songnian ^a   Yu, Jun ^a,c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

approximate method; gamma distribution; Ka; Ks; substitution rate

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONSYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION RATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYNONYMOUS SUBSTITUTION RATE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS;

EID: 71549123991     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(08)60040-6     Document Type: Article

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