Application of comparative genomics in the identification and analysis of novel families of membrane-associated receptors in bacteria.

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Published in BMC Genomics on August 12, 2003

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Vivek Anantharaman1, L Aravind

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1: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. ananthar@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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