A Unique, Consistent Identifier for Alternatively Spliced Transcript Variants
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A Unique, Consistent Identifier for Alternatively Spliced Transcript Variants
BACKGROUND As research into alternative splicing reveals the fundamental importance of this phenomenon in the genome expression of higher organisms, there is an increasing need for a standardized, consistent and unique identifier for alternatively spliced isoforms. Such an identifier would be useful to eliminate ambiguities in references to gene isoforms, and would allow for the reliable compar...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007631