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GeneSeer: a sage for gene names and genomic resources.
BMC genomics - 21 Sept 2005
Olson Andrew J, Tully Tim, Sachidanandam Ravi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Independent identification of genes in different organisms and assays has led to a multitude of names for each gene. This balkanization makes it difficult to use gene names to locate genomic resources, homologs in other species and relevant publications. METHODS: We solve the naming problem by collecting data from a variety of sources and building a name-translation database. We have also built a...
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