Towards understanding the first genome sequence of a crenarchaeon by genome annotation using clusters of orthologous groups of proteins (COGs)

Genome Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  Natale, Darren A ^a   Shankavaram, Uma T ^a   Galperin, Michael Y ^a   Wolf, Yuri I ^a   Aravind, L ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeal Genome; Archaeal Species; Genome Annotation; Methanococcus Jannaschii; Ureaplasma Urealyticum

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA SEQUENCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; PYROCOCCUS;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CRENARCHAEOTA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMICS; PYROCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0034572821     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-5-research0009     Document Type: Article

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