A comparison of tools for the simulation of genomic next-generation sequencing data

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 459-469

  Escalona, Merly ^a   Rocha, Sara ^a   Posada, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION TREE; DEGRADATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METAGENOMICS; NANOPORE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATOR; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MUTATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84975297253     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.57     Document Type: Review

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