The Merck Gene Index browser: An extensible data integration system for gene finding, gene characterization and EST data mining

Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 2-13

  Eckman, Barbara A ^a,b,c   Aaronson, Jeffrey S ^a,b,c   Borkowski, Joseph A ^b,c   Bailey, Wendy J ^b,c   Elliston, Keith O ^b,c   Williamson, Alan R ^c   Blevins, Richard A ^b,c  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Gene Logic Inc ^*

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLONE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE;

EID: 0031877015     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.1.2     Document Type: Article

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