Computational approaches to interpreting genomic sequence variation

Genome Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Ritchie, Graham RS ^a,b   Flicek, Paul ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOLLOW UP; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922933437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-014-0087-1     Document Type: Review

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