Outlook on Thailand's genomics and computational biology research and development

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Tongsima, Wannipha ^a   Tongsima, Sissades ^b   Palittapongarnpim, Prasit ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^c Mahidol University ^*  (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; THAILAND;

GENOME;

BASIC RESEARCH; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; REVIEW; THAILAND; ANIMAL; DRUG DESIGN; EDUCATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROTEOMICS; RESEARCH; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DRUG DESIGN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PROTEOMICS; RESEARCH; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THAILAND;

EID: 48249134799     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000115     Document Type: Review

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