The human genome: A multifractal analysis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Moreno, Pedro A ^a   Vélez, Patricia E ^a,b   Martínez, Ember ^b   Garreta, Luis E ^a   Díaz, Néstor ^b   Amador, Siler ^b   Tischer, Irene ^a   Gutiérrez, José M ^c   Naik, Ashwinikumar K ^d   Tobar, Fabián ^a   García, Felipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL CAUCA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d Vaatsalya HealthCare Solutions Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CPG ISLAND; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ALU SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ALU ELEMENTS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CPG ISLANDS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80054000048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-506     Document Type: Article

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