A classification of bioinformatics algorithms from the viewpoint of maximizing expected accuracy (MEA)

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 532-549

  Hamada, Michiaki ^a,b   Asai, Kiyoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

algorithms; alignment; RNA; secondary structure; sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84860704698     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2011.0197     Document Type: Review

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