Open-Phylo: A customizable crowd-computing platform for multiple sequence alignment

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Kwak, Daniel ^a   Kam, Alfred ^a   Becerra, David ^a   Zhou, Qikuan ^a   Hops, Adam ^a   Zarour, Eleyine ^a   Kam, Arthur ^a   Sarmenta, Luis ^b   Blanchette, Mathieu ^a   Waldispühl, Jérôme ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ALGORITHM; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; RECREATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HARNESS; PHYLO;

ALGORITHMS; GENOMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84886913685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-10-r116     Document Type: Article

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