Orthodisease: Tracking disease gene orthologs across 100 species

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 463-473

  Forslund, Kristoffer ^a   Schreiber, Fabian ^a   Thanintorn, Nattaphon ^a   Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^a,b  

^a Stockholm Bioinformatics Centre   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Database; Disease; Gene duplication; Orthology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASES; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80053215377     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbr024     Document Type: Article

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