Comparative genomics: The key to understanding the human genome project

BioEssays

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-130

  Clark, M S ^a  

^a HGMP Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE SEQUENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN GENETICS; MEDICAL GENETICS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033083072     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199902)21:2<121::AID-BIES6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Review

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