EnsMart: A generic system for fast and flexible access to biological data

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 160-169

  Kasprzk, Arek ^a   Keefe, Damian ^a   Smedley, Damian ^a   London, Darin ^a   Spooner, William ^b   Melsopp, Craig ^a   Hammond, Martin ^a   Rocca Serra, Philippe ^a   Cox, Tony ^b   Birney, Ewan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPTIDE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENSEMBL; ENSMART; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 9144269670     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1645104     Document Type: Article

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