A brief review: The Z-curve theory and its application in genome analysis

Current Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 78-94

  Zhang, Ren ^a   Zhang, Chun Ting ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GC profile; Gene finding; Genomic island; Replication origin; Z curve

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; Z CURVE;

EID: 84903698653     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202915999140328162433     Document Type: Article

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