The long hard road to a completed Candida albicans genome

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 311-315

  Nantel, André ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Annotation; Candida albicans; Comparative genomics; Genome sequence

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 33646124003     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2006.01.002     Document Type: Review

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