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A Probabilistic Model of Local Sequence Alignment That Simplifies Statistical Significance Estimation

  • Sean R. Eddy

    * E-mail: eddys@janelia.hhmi.org

    Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

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A Probabilistic Model of Local Sequence Alignment That Simplifies Statistical Significance Estimation

  • Sean R. Eddy
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  • Published: May 30, 2008
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000069
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