Fragment merger: An online tool to merge overlapping long sequence fragments

Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 824-833

  Bell, Trevor G ^a   Kramvis, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Amplicons; Chromatograms; Dna assembly; Hepatitis b virus; Sequence data; Sequence fragments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA PROCESSING; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAGMENT MERGER; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; ONLINE SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURFACE GENE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875332936     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v5030824     Document Type: Article

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