DEG 5.0, a database of essential genes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Ren ^a   Lin, Yan ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF CANCER PREVENTION AND THERAPY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DEG 5.0 DATABASE; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; WORM; YEAST; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; MICE; ZEBRAFISH;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DANIO RERIO; EUKARYOTA; MUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 58149197597     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn858     Document Type: Article

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