An analysis of the Sargasso Sea resource and the consequences for database composition

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tress, Michael L ^a   Cozzetto, Domenico ^b   Tramontano, Anna ^b   Valencia, Alfonso ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; GENOMIC INFORMATION; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE ALIGNMENT; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; SEARCHABLE DATABASE; SEQUENCING METHOD;

BIOINFORMATICS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENTROPY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MARINE BIOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 33746106844     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-213     Document Type: Article

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