The difficulty of identifying genes in anonymous vertebrate sequences*

Computers and Chemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 203-214

  Claverie, Jean Michel ^a   Poirot, Olivier ^a   Lopez, Fabrice ^a  

^a Struct and Genetic Info Laboratory   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EXON; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0031298796     PISSN: 00978485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8485(96)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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