German Conference on Bioinformatics 2003 (GCB'03)

Werner Mewes

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth353

German Conference on Bioinformatics 2003 (GCB'03)

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1481
Number of pages	1
Journal	Bioinformatics
Volume	20
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bth353
State	Published - 10 Jul 2004

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