Using purine skews to predict genes in AT-rich poxviruses

BMC Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Da Silva, Melissa ^a   Upton, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CODON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POXVIRUS; PREDICTION; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMSACTA MOOREI; POXVIRIDAE; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 18044389358     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-22     Document Type: Article

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