Visualization of sequence and structural features of genomes and chromosome fragments. Application to CpG islands,

Juan A Subirana1, Ezequiel Anokian

  • 1Departament d'Enginyeria Quimica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Diagonal 647, Barcelona, Spain. juan.a.subirana@upc.edu

Gene
|December 21, 2010
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