Detection of Fused Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes using Gene deFuser: Analysis of the Tetrahymena thermophila genome

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Salim, Hannah M W ^a,c   Koire, Amanda M ^a   Stover, Nicholas A ^b   Cavalcanti, Andre R O ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTIC GENOME; GENE ANNOTATION; GENE FUSION; NUCLEAR EXPORT; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; PROTEIN SEQUENCE FILES; SURFACE ANTIGEN; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

BIOLOGY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

GENES;

EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ALGORITHMS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOFTWARE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 79960074591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-279     Document Type: Article

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