Fighting against uncertainty: An essential issue in bioinformatics

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 748-767

  Hamada, Michiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Estimation problems; Sequence analysis; Uncertainty of solutions

Indexed keywords

RNA;

BIOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84921758344     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbt038     Document Type: Article

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