Identifying elemental genomic track types and representing them uniformly

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gundersen, Sveinung ^a   Kalaš, Matúš ^b,c   Abul, Osman ^d   Frigessi, Arnoldo ^e,f   Hovig, Eivind ^a,f   Sandve, Geir K ^f  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Uni Computing   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^e NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA GENERATION; FOUR-CORE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR ASPECTS; TOOL DEVELOPMENT; TRACK DATA; XML FORMAT;

XML;

GENE ENCODING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METHODOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855180941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-494     Document Type: Article

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