BMC Evolutionary Biology

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On homology searches by protein Blast and the characterization of the age of genes

M Mar Albà1 and Jose Castresana2

Author Affiliations

1 Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics, Catalan Institution for Advanced and Research Studies, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

2 Department of Physiology and Molecular Biodiversity, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:53 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-53

Published: 4 April 2007

Additional files

Additional file 1:

List of genes used in the study. The ENSEMBL Gene ID for the human and mouse genes, and the estimated age category of each gene is given.

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