Phy-Mer: A novel alignment-free and reference-independent mitochondrial haplogroup classifier

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1310-1312

  Navarro Gomez, Daniel ^a   Leipzig, Jeremy ^b   Shen, Lishuang ^a   Lott, Marie ^b   Stassen, Alphons P M ^c   Wallace, Douglas C ^b,d   Wiggs, Janey L ^a   Falk, Marni J ^b,d   Van Oven, Mannis ^e   Gai, Xiaowu ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84927739552     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu825     Document Type: Article

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