A formal MIM specification and tools for the common exchange of MIM diagrams: an XML-Based format, an API, and a

Augustin Luna1, Evrim I Karac, Margot Sunshine

  • 1Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

BMC Bioinformatics
|May 19, 2011
PubMed
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