Local conservation scores without a priori assumptions on neutral substitution rates

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Comparative genomics aims to detect signals of evolutionary conservation as an indicator of functional constraint. Surprisingly, results of the ENCODE project revealed that about half of the experimentally verified functional element...

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Main Authors: Hagenauer Joachim, Leonardi Niccolò, Hanus Pavol, Dingel Janis, Zech Jürgen, Mueller Jakob C
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-04-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/190