New horizons in sequence analysis

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 190-193

  Hubbard, Tim J P ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; GENE SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030902463     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80024-3     Document Type: Article

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