Alignment-free sequence comparison: benefits, applications, and tools
Abstract Alignment-free sequence analyses have been applied to problems ranging from whole-genome phylogeny to the classification of protein families, identification of horizontally transferred genes, and detection of recombined sequences. The strength of these methods makes them particularly useful...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Genome Biology |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-017-1319-7 |