Towards improved assessment of functional similarity in large-scale screens: A study on indel length

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Schönhuth, Alexander ^a   Salari, Raheleh ^a   Hormozdiari, Fereydoun ^a   Cherkasov, Artem ^b   Cenk Sahinalp, S ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Biochemical networks; Computational molecular biology; Gene expression; HMM; Machine learning; RNA; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MARKOV CHAINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77149139160     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0031     Document Type: Article

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