Exegesis: A procedure to improve gene predictions and its use to find immunoglobulin superfamily proteins in the human and mouse genomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 6096-6103

  de Bono, Bernard ^a,b   Chothia, Cyrus ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE DATABASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0344874241     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg828     Document Type: Article

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