The mobile element locator tool (MELT): Population-scale mobile element discovery and biology

Genome Research

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1916-1929

  Gardner, Eugene J ^a   Lam, Vincent K ^a   Harris, Daniel N ^a   Chuang, Nelson T ^a   Scott, Emma C ^a   Stephen Pittard, W ^b   Mills, Ryan E ^c   Devine, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; INTROGRESSION; MOBILE ELEMENT LOCATOR TOOL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOFTWARE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85041322329     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.218032.116     Document Type: Article

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