Ensembl core software resources: Storage and programmatic access for DNA sequence and genome annotation

Database

Volumn 2017, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Ruffier, Magali ^a   Kähäri, Andreas ^a,c   Komorowska, Monika ^a,d   Keenan, Stephen ^a   Laird, Matthew ^a   Longden, Ian ^a,e   Proctor, Glenn ^a,f   Searle, Steve ^b   Staines, Daniel ^a   Taylor, Kieron ^a   Vullo, Alessandro ^a   Yates, Andrew ^a   Zerbino, Daniel ^a   Flicek, Paul ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^e Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^f Eagle Genomics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACE; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PROCEDURES;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85015901172     PISSN: 17580463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/database/bax020     Document Type: Article

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