From expressed sequence tags to 'epigenomics': An understanding of disease processes

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 684-687

  Zweiger, Gary ^a   Scott, Randal W ^a  

^a Experimental Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030724420     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(97)80119-X     Document Type: Article

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