Annotating eukaryote genomes

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 349-354

  Lewis, Suzanna ^a   Ashburner, Michael ^b   Reese, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ACCURACY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034110971     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00095-6     Document Type: Review

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