MEGA biocentric software for sequence and phylogenetic analysis: A review

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-240

  Sohpal, Vipan Kumar ^a   Dey, Apurba ^b   Singh, Amarpal ^a  

^a BEANT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Alignment; Biocomputing; Bioinformatics software; MEGA; Molecular biology; Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954551405     PISSN: 17445485     EISSN: 17445493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2010.034072     Document Type: Article

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