The Z curve database: A graphic representation of genome sequences

Bioinformatics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 593-599

  Zhang, Chun Ting ^a   Zhang, Ren ^b   Ou, Hong Yu ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF CANCER PREVENTION AND THERAPY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIROID; VIRUS GENE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; VIROIDS;

EID: 0037460960     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg041     Document Type: Article

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