Heterochromatic sequences in a Drosophila whole-genome shotgun assembly

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Hoskins, Roger A ^a,g   Smith, Christopher D ^b,g   Carlson, Joseph W ^a   Carvalho, A Bernardo ^c   Halpern, Aaron ^d   Kaminker, Joshua S ^b   Kennedy, Cameron ^e   Mungall, Chris J ^b   Sullivan, Beth A ^e   Sutton, Granger G ^d   Yasuhara, Jiro C ^f   Wakimoto, Barbara T ^f   Myers, Eugene W ^d   Celniker, Susan E ^a   Rubin, Gerald M ^a,b   Karpen, Gary H ^e  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

^e Salk Institute   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g These Authors Contributed Equally to This Work   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Bacterial Artificial Chromosome; Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Contig; Transposable Element; Transposable Element Sequence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONTIG MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0002721912     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-research0085     Document Type: Article

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