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  • noun genetics An ordered and oriented set of contigs that still contains some gaps

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  • PPHGI-1 region; it falls on supercontig 672 about two kilobases upstream of a gene encoding a protein (C1E_2039) sharing 43% amino acid identity with

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

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