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Jun Cai1, Jing Zhang, Ying Huang

  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Department of Automation, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, China. caijun99@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|October 12, 2005
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