DNA profiling methods and tools: A review

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Volumn 224, Issue , 2018, Pages 216-231

  Alamoudi, Emad ^a   Mehmood, Rashid ^a   Albeshri, Aiiad ^a   Gojobori, Takashi ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; DNA profiling; Forensic science; High performance computing; Likelihood computations

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; MIXTURES;

ACTIVE AREA; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DNA PROFILING; DNA TYPING; FORENSIC LABORATORY; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LIKELIHOOD COMPUTATION; SEXUAL ASSAULT;

DNA;

EID: 85051123291     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94180-6_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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