ParaAT: A parallel tool for constructing multiple protein-coding DNA alignments

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 419, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 779-781

  Zhang, Zhang ^a   Xiao, Jingfa ^a   Wu, Jiayan ^a   Zhang, Haiyan ^b   Liu, Guiming ^a   Wang, Xumin ^a   Dai, Lin ^a,c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b NINGXIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Alignment; Back translation; Homolog; Parallel; Protein coding DNA alignment

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROTEIN CODING DNA ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84862806767     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.02.101     Document Type: Article

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