The COMBREX Project: Design, Methodology, and Initial Results

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Anton, Brian P ^a   Chang, Yi Chien ^b   Brown, Peter ^c   Choi, Han Pil ^c   Faller, Lina L ^b   Guleria, Jyotsna ^c   Hu, Zhenjun ^b   Klitgord, Niels ^b   Levy Moonshine, Ami ^c   Maksad, Almaz ^c   Mazumdar, Varun ^b   McGettrick, Mark ^d   Osmani, Lais ^c   Pokrzywa, Revonda ^c   Rachlin, John ^d   Swaminathan, Rajeswari ^c   Allen, Benjamin ^e,f   Housman, Genevieve ^c   Monahan, Caitlin ^c   Rochussen, Krista ^c   Tao, Kevin ^c   Bhagwat, Ashok S ^g   Brenner, Steven E ^h   Columbus, Linda ⁱ   de Crécy Lagard, Valérie ^j   Ferguson, Donald ^k   Fomenkov, Alexey ^a   Gadda, Giovanni ^l   Morgan, Richard D ^a   Osterman, Andrei L ^m   Rodionov, Dmitry A ^m   Rodionova, Irina A ^m   Rudd, Kenneth E ⁿ   Söll, Dieter ^o   Spain, James ^p   Xu, Shuang yong ^a   Bateman, Alex ^q   Blumenthal, Robert M ^r   Bollinger, J Martin ^s   Chang, Woo Suk ^t   Ferrer, Manuel ^u   Friedberg, Iddo ^k   Galperin, Michael Y ^v   Gobeill, Julien ^w,x   Haft, Daniel ^y   Hunt, John ^z   Karp, Peter ^aa   Klimke, William ^v   Krebs, Carsten ^s   Macelis, Dana ^a   Madupu, Ramana ^y   Martin, Maria J ^q   Miller, Jeffrey H ^ab   O'Donovan, Claire ^q   Palsson, Bernhard ^ac   Ruch, Patrick ^w,x   Setterdahl, Aaron ^ad   Sutton, Granger ^y   Tate, John ^ae   Yakunin, Alexander ^af   Tchigvintsev, Dmitri ^af   Plata, Germán ^z   Hu, Jie ^z   Greiner, Russell ^ag   Horn, David ^ah   Sjölander, Kimmen ^ai   Salzberg, Steven L ^aj   Vitkup, Dennis ^z   Letovsky, Stanley ^b   Segrè, Daniel ^b   DeLisi, Charles ^b   Roberts, Richard J ^a,b   Steffen, Martin ^c   Kasif, Simon ^b,c   more..

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d Diatom Software LLC   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United States)

^g WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^k MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^q EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^r MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^s PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^u CSIC   (Spain)

^v NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^x SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^y J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^z Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^aa SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^ad INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^ae WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^af UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^ah TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^aj JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMBREX DATABASE; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FUNDING; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEARCH ENGINE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84883152491     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001638     Document Type: Article

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