Towards the integration of mouse databases - Definition and implementation of solutions to two use-cases in mouse functional genomics

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gruenberger, Michael ^a   Alberts, Rudi ^b   Smedley, Damian ^c   Swertz, Morris ^d   Schofield, Paul ^a   Schughart, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77949517126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-16     Document Type: Article

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