A computational approach to the inference of sphingolipid pathways from the genome of Aspergillus fumigatus

Current Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-141

  Do, Jin Hwan ^a   Park, Tae Kyu ^a   Choi, Dong Kug ^a  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Gene prediction; GlimmerM; Sphingolipid pathway

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; MANNOSE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; SPHINGOLIPID;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOME; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENZYMES; GENOME, FUNGAL; SOFTWARE; SPHINGOLIPIDS;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 27644588383     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0009-2     Document Type: Article

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