A beginner's guide to eukaryotic genome annotation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 329-342

  Yandell, Mark ^a   Ence, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ACCURACY; EUKARYOTIC GENOME ANNOTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EUKARYOTA; EXONS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84859898660     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3174     Document Type: Review

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