Missing genes in metabolic pathways: A comparative genomics approach

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238-251

  Osterman, Andrei ^a   Overbeek, Ross ^a  

^a Integrated Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COENZYME A; ISOPRENOID; RIBOFLAVIN;

ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037398732     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(03)00027-9     Document Type: Review

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