Myriads of protein families, and still counting

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作者
Kunin, V
Cases, I
Enright, AJ
de Lorenzo, V
Ouzounis, CA [1 ]
机构
[1] European Bioinformat Inst, Computat Genom Grp, EMBL Cambridge Outstn, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England
[2] CSIC, Ctr Nacl Biotecnol, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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D O I
10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-401
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
From the historical record of genome sequencing, we show that the rate of discovery of new families has remained constant over time, indicating that our knowledge of sequence space is far from complete.
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