Novel bioinformatic developments for exome sequencing

Human Genetics

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 603-614

  Lelieveld, Stefan H ^a   Veltman, Joris A ^b,c   Gilissen, Christian ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPRESSION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EXOME; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONOGENIC DISORDER; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84963705413     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-016-1658-6     Document Type: Review

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