Generation, annotation, and analysis of an extensive Aspergillus niger EST collection

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Semova, Natalia ^a   Storms, Reginald ^a   John, Tricia ^a   Gaudet, Pascale ^a,b   Ulycznyj, Peter ^a   Xiang, Jia Min ^a   Sun, Jian ^a   Butler, Greg ^a   Tsang, Adrian ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CONTIG MAPPING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENBANK; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL;

EID: 33645653504     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-6-7     Document Type: Article

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