COLOMBOS v2.0: an ever expanding collection of bacterial expression compendia

Pieter Meysman1, Paolo Sonego, Luca Bianco

  • 1Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium, Biomedical Informatics Research Center Antwerp (biomina), University of Antwerp/Antwerp University Hospital, B-2650 Edegem, Belgium, Department of Computational Biology, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Trento (TN) 38010, Italy, Department of Microbial and Molecular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven B-3001, Belgium, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, Mexico, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent 9052, Belgium and Department of Information Technology, IMinds, Ghent University, Gent 9052, Belgium.

Nucleic Acids Research
|November 12, 2013
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