A comparative analysis of parallel computing approaches for genome assembly

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-63

  Ahmed, Munib ^a   Ahmad, Ishfaq ^a   Khan, Samee Ullah ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

genome assembly; isoefficiency; parallel computing; sequencing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME; GENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84858767001     PISSN: 19132751     EISSN: 18671462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12539-011-0062-0     Document Type: Article

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