WEP: A high-performance analysis pipeline for whole-exome data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL7, 2013, Pages

  D'Antonio, Mattia ^a,b   D'Onorio De Meo, Paolo ^b,e,f   Paoletti, Daniele ^b   Elmi, Berardino ^a,b   Pallocca, Matteo ^b   Sanna, Nico ^e   Picardi, Ernesto ^a   Pesole, Graziano ^a,c,d   Castrignanò, Tiziana ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b CASPUR   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEGBA)   (Italy)

^e CINECA   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT OPTIMIZATION; ALLELIC VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; EUKARYOTIC GENOME; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SEQUENCING; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES;

PIPELINES; TOOLS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; INTERNET; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; EXOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84885405632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S7-S11     Document Type: Article

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