Using shared genomic synteny and shared protein functions to enhance the identification of orthologous gene pairs

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 703-710

  Zheng, Xiangqun H ^a   Lu, Fu ^a,b   Wang, Zhen Yuan ^a,b   Zhong, Fei ^c   Hoover, Jeffrey ^a   Mural, Richard ^a  

^a CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c QIAGEN North America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME 16; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY;

EID: 15944400987     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti045     Document Type: Article

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