A statistically rigorous method for determining antigenic switching networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Noble, Robert ^a   Recker, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANTIGENIC SWITCHING NETWORK; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTURE; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84862648392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039335     Document Type: Article

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