Computational identification of adaptive mutants using the VERT system

Journal of Biological Engineering

Katy C Kao¹  James Winkler¹ 

[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

关键词: Population history;    Visualizing evolution in real time;    hidden Markov Model;    Adaptive evolution;   

Others  :  813517
DOI  :  10.1186/1754-1611-6-3

 received in 2011-10-07, accepted in 2012-04-02,  发布年份 2012

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Winkler and Kao; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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