SynChro: A fast and easy tool to reconstruct and visualize synteny blocks along eukaryotic chromosomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Drillon, Guénola ^a,b   Carbone, Alessandra ^a,b,c   Fischer, Gilles ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; SYNTENY; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84905030641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092621     Document Type: Article

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