MANTIS: An R package that simulates multilocus models of pathogen evolution

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lourenço, José ^a   Wikramaratna, Paul S ^a   Gupta, Sunetra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Model; Multilocus; Pathogen; R package

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; MODELS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TIME SERIES;

BACKGROUND THEORY; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS; EVOLUTION; FREE SOFTWARE TOOLS; GENETIC VARIANTS; MULTILOCUS; PROGRAMMING SKILLS;

PATHOGENS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84938985571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0598-9     Document Type: Article

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