Pairwise sequence comparison (PASC) and its application in the classification of filoviruses

Viruses

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1318-1327

  Bao, Yiming ^a   Chetvernin, Vyacheslav ^a   Tatusova, Tatiana ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Filoviridae; Filovirus; ICTV; International committee on taxonomy of viruses; National center for biotechnology information; NCBI; Pairwise sequence comparison; PASC; Virus classification; Virus taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FILOVIRUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARBURG VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRUS; ICTV; INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON TAXONOMY OF VIRUSES; NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION; NCBI; PAIRWISE SEQUENCE COMPARISON; PASC; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS TAXONOMY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; FILOVIRIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84865370448     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v4081318     Document Type: Article

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