A brief introduction to web-based genome browsers

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-143

  Wang, Jun ^a   Kong, Lei ^a   Gao, Ge ^a   Luo, Jingchu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Customization; Data retrieval and analysis; Genome browsers; Genomic databases; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA DISPLAY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84875630069     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs029     Document Type: Article

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