Comparative genomics approaches to study organism similarities and differences

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 142-150

  Wei, Liping ^a,b   Liu, Yueyi ^c   Dubchak, Inna ^d   Shon, John ^a   Park, John ^a  

^a Nexus Genomics Inc   (United States)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; CODING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTENY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; GENES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036435802     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1532-0464(02)00506-3     Document Type: Review

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