Identification of true EST alignments and exon regions of gene sequences

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2463-2469

  Zhou, Yanhong ^a   Jing, Hui ^a   Li, Yanen ^a   Liu, Huailan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

EST; Exon identification; Gene sequence; Sequence alignment; True alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944444340     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/982004-64     Document Type: Article

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