Multi-species sequence comparison: The next frontier in genome annotation

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Dubchak, Inna ^a   Frazer, Kelly ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Perlegen Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN GENOME; LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; PRIMATES; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0345865039     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-122     Document Type: Article

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