D-Tailor: Automated analysis and design of DNA sequences

Bioinformatics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1087-1094

  Guimaraes, Joao C ^a,b,c   Rocha, Miguel ^c   Arkin, Adam P ^a,b,d   Cambray, Guillaume ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84898903326     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt742     Document Type: Article

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