eCOMPAGT integrates mtDNA: Import, validation and export of mitochondrial DNA profiles for population genetics, tumour dynamics and genotype-phenotype association studies

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Weißensteiner, Hansi ^a,b   Schönherr, Sebastian ^a,b   Specht, Günther ^b   Kronenberg, Florian ^a   Brandstätter, Anita ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED WORKFLOW; DATABASE TECHNOLOGY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVALUATION PROGRAM; GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE ASSOCIATIONS; GENOTYPING METHODS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (MTDNA); POPULATION GENETICS;

CHROMOSOMES; DIGITAL STORAGE; DNA; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

LABORATORIES;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950449916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-122     Document Type: Article

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