The Dfam database of repetitive DNA families

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue D1, 2016, Pages D81-D89

  Hubley, Robert ^a   Finn, Robert D ^b   Clements, Jody ^c   Eddy, Sean R ^d   Jones, Thomas A ^d   Bao, Weidong ^e   Smit, Arian F A ^a   Wheeler, Travis J ^f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Genetic Information Research Institute   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; DNA; TRANSPOSON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DFAM DATABASE; ENTROPY WEIGHTING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; OVEREXTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; INTERNET; MARKOV CHAIN; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME; HUMANS; INTERNET; MARKOV CHAINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84976871290     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1272     Document Type: Article

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