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BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hutter, Harald ^a   Ng, Man Ping ^a   Chen, Nansheng ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA MINING; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SPLICING; WEB BROWSER; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INTERNET; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

PROTEIN;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; INTERNET; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 71049162212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-529     Document Type: Article

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