Alignment-free genome tree inference by learning group-specific distance metrics

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1470-1484

  Patil, Kaustubh R ^a,c   McHardy, Alice C ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alignment; Alignment free; Distance metric learning; Genome signature; Genome tree; Sequence comparison; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ALIGNMENT; ALIGNMENT-FREE; ARTICLE; DISTANCE METRIC LEARNING; GENOME SIGNATURE; GENOME TREE; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE COMPARISON; TAXONOMY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MICROBIAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; ALIGNMENT-FREE; DISTANCE METRIC LEARNING; GENOME SIGNATURE; GENOME TREE; SEQUENCE COMPARISON; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84891649191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt105     Document Type: Article

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