Recent developments in biological sequence databases

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-58

  Baker, Patricia G ^a   Brass, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION SERVICE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031933469     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(98)80084-0     Document Type: Article

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