Sequence alignment as hypothesis testing

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 677-691

  Meng, Lu ^a   Sun, Fengzhu ^a,b   Zhang, Xuegong ^a   Waterman, Michael S ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hypothesis testing; local alignment; power; scoring function; sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79955845122     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2010.0328     Document Type: Article

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