Phylo: a citizen science approach for improving multiple sequence alignment.

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Published in PLoS One on March 07, 2012

Authors

Alexander Kawrykow1, Gary Roumanis, Alfred Kam, Daniel Kwak, Clarence Leung, Chu Wu, Eleyine Zarour, Phylo players, Luis Sarmenta, Mathieu Blanchette, Jérôme Waldispühl

Author Affiliations

1: School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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