Model organism databases: Essential resources that need the support of both funders and users

BMC Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Oliver, Stephen G ^a   Lock, Antonia ^b   Harris, Midori A ^a   Nurse, Paul ^c   Wood, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84978055812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-016-0276-z     Document Type: Note

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