CEGA-a catalog of conserved elements from genomic alignments

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue D1, 2016, Pages D96-D100

  Dousse, Aline ^a   Junier, Thomas ^a   Zdobnov, Evgeny M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTE; ARTICLE; BOREOEUTHERIA; CLADISTICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONSERVED ELEMENTS FROM GENOMIC ALIGNMENTS DATABASE; CONSERVED NONCODING SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; EUARCHONTOGLIRES; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; INTERNET; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNTENY; ULTRA CONSERVED ELEMENT; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; RAT;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY;

EID: 84976451720     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1163     Document Type: Article

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