A practical, bioinformatic workflow system for large data sets generated by next-generation sequencing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Cantacessi, Cinzia ^a   Jex, Aaron R ^a   Hall, Ross S ^a   Young, Neil D ^a   Campbell, Bronwyn E ^a   Joachim, Anja ^b   Nolan, Matthew J ^a   Abubucker, Sahar ^c   Sternberg, Paul W ^d   Ranganathan, Shoba ^e   Mitreva, Makedonka ^c   Gasser, Robin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG TARGETING; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM DENTATUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WORKFLOW;

OESOPHAGOSTOMUM DENTATUM;

EID: 77957223031     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq667     Document Type: Article

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