Development of GEBRET: A web-based analysis tool for retroelements in primate genomes

Genes and Genomics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 679-684

  Ha, Hong Seok ^a   Chung, Woo Keun ^a   Ahn, Kung ^a   Bae, Jin Han ^a   Park, Sang Je ^a   Moon, Jae Woo ^a   Nam, Kyu Hwi ^a   Han, Kyudong ^b   Cho, Hwan Gue ^a   Kim, Heui Soo ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Evolution; Primates; Retroelements; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905100536     PISSN: 19769571     EISSN: 20929293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13258-011-0103-4     Document Type: Article

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