Fast and robust multiple sequence alignment with phylogeny-aware gap placement

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Szalkowski, Adam M ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING PATTERNS; EXECUTION TIME; GRAPH-BASED SEQUENCES; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; PLACEMENT ALGORITHM; SUBSTITUTION PATTERNS;

AMINO ACIDS; BENCHMARKING;

BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84862215223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-129     Document Type: Article

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