NOCIt – a computational tool to infer the number of contributors to a forensic DNA sample
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1 Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102, USA 2 Biomedical Forensic Sciences Program, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA 3 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 4 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia *Corresponding author. Tel.: +1-856-225-6094. E-mail: [email protected]
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