FastEpistasis: A high performance computing solution for quantitative trait epistasis

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Schüpbach, Thierry ^a   Xenarios, Ioannis ^a   Bergmann, Sven ^a,b   Kapur, Karen ^a,b  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953893931     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq147     Document Type: Article

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