GALA, a database for genomic sequence alignments and annotations

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 732-741

  Giardine, Belinda ^a   Elnitski, Laura ^a   Riemer, Cathy ^a   Makalowska, Izabela ^b   Schwartz, Scott ^a   Miller, Webb ^a,b   Hardison, Ross C ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; GALA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CPG ISLANDS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037397918     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.603103     Document Type: Review

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