Curation is forever: Comparative genomics approaches to functional annotation

Drug Discovery Today: TARGETS

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 138-146

  Overbeek, Ross ^a   Devine, Domenica ^b   Vonstein, Veronika ^a  

^a Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes   (United States)

^b Integrated Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CHROMOSOME; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

EID: 2542566793     PISSN: 17418372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1477-3627(03)02337-7     Document Type: Review

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