Comparing sequences without using alignments: application to HIV/SIV subtyping

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In general, the construction of trees is based on sequence alignments. This procedure, however, leads to loss of informationwhen parts of sequence alignments (for instance ambiguous regions) are deleted before tree building. To overc...

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Main Authors: Grossmann Alexander, Zhang Ming, Pupin Maude, Debomy Laurent, Didier Gilles, Devauchelle Claudine, Laprevotte Ivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-01-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/1