A grid-enabled problem solving environment for QTL analysis in R

2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2010, BICoB 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 202-209

  Jayawardena, Mahen ^a   Nettelblad, Carl ^a   Toor, Salman Zubair ^a   Östberg, Per Olov ^b   Elmroth, Erik ^b   Holmgren, Sverker ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; GRID JOB MANAGEMENTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENTS; PROBLEM-SOLVING ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL SOFTWARE;

MIDDLEWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 80052583246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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