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Scale-Dependent Statistics of the Numbers of Transcripts and Protein Sequences Encoded in the Genome

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Kuznetsov, V.A. (2006). Scale-Dependent Statistics of the Numbers of Transcripts and Protein Sequences Encoded in the Genome. In: Zhang, W., Shmulevich, I. (eds) Computational and Statistical Approaches to Genomics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26288-1_10

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