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Recent developments in biological sequence databases.

P G Baker·A Brass
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Biological sequence databases are currently being re-engineered to make them more efficient and easier to use. This re-engineering is also providing an infrastructure to make it easier to interrogate and integrate data from different sources. The net result of this effort should be a great improvement in the power and availability of bioinformatics resources to the general biology community.

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P G Baker, A Brass. 1998. Recent developments in biological sequence databases.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0958-1669(98)80084-0

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