CEG: A database of essential gene clusters

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ye, Yuan Nong ^a   Hua, Zhi Gang ^a   Huang, Jian ^a   Rao, Nini ^a   Guo, Feng Biao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Antibacterial drug targets; CEG; Essential gene cluster; Essential gene prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84887338297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-769     Document Type: Article

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