Opinion piece Genome sequencing: Time to widen our horizons

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 7-9

  Blaxter, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genome; Negtected phyla; Phylogenetics; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; PARASITE;

ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME; HUMANS; PARASITES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 3242880088     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/1.1.7     Document Type: Note

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