OrgConv: Detection of gene conversion using consensus sequences and its application in plant mitochondrial and chloroplast homologs

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hao, Weilong ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; HOMOLOGOUS SEQUENCES; MITOCHONDRIAL GENES; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES; MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; ORGANELLAR COMPARTMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MITOCHONDRIA;

GENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; PLANT GENOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CHLOROPLASTS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; INTERNET; MITOCHONDRIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77951187174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-114     Document Type: Article

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