Computational challenges in the analysis of ancient DNA

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Prüfer, Kay ^a   Stenzel, Udo ^a   Hofreiter, Michael ^a,b   Pääbo, Svante ^a   Kelso, Janet ^a   Green, Richard E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ACCURACY; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77952273996     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-r47     Document Type: Article

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