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Bird AP
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book
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| Web Links |
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CpG island searcher program (CpGi130) http://cpgislands.usc.edu/
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Ensembl database ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/
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MegaBLAST program http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/download.shtml
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NCBI dbSNP database http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/
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NCBI reference sequences ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/
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