Touring Ensembl: A practical guide to genome browsing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Spudich, Giulietta M ^a   Fernández Suárez, Xosé M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; MYOSIN VI;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA INTEGRATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WEB BROWSER; ANIMAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERNET; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77951962908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-295     Document Type: Article

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