Systematic functional analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using RNAi

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6920, 2003, Pages 231-237

  Kamath, Ravi S ^a   Fraser, Andrew G ^a,b   Dong, Yan ^a   Poulin, Gino ^a   Durbin, Richard ^b   Gotta, Monica ^a,e   Kanapin, Alexander ^c   Le Bot, Nathalie ^a   Moreno, Sergio ^a,d   Sohrmann, Marc ^b,e   Welchman, David P ^a   Zipperien, Peder ^a   Ahringer, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISMS; RNA; YEAST;

BACTERIAL CLONES; GENE FUNCTIONS;

GENES;

RNA;

GENOME;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; GENOMICS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, HELMINTH; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037448540     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01278     Document Type: Article

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