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Hideaki Sugawara1, Takashi Abe, Takashi Gojobori

  • 1Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems Yata, Mishima 411-8540, Japan.

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