N-gram analysis of 970 microbial organisms reveals presence of biological language models

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Osmanbeyoglu, Hatice U ^a   Ganapathiraju, Madhavi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY DISTANCE; EVOLUTIONARY TREE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOME SEQUENCES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 78650997356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-12     Document Type: Article

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