Modernizing Reference Genome Assemblies
PLoS BiologyPublished 5 July 2011Open access
Deanna M. Church, Valérie Schneider, Tina Graves, Katherine A. Auger, Fiona Cunningham, Nathan Bouk
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Support for this work came from the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, The National Library of Medicine, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Wellcome Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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