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Recent progress in predicting protein sub-subcellular locations

Pufeng Du School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, TNLIST/Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;[email protected]
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Tingting Li Department of Biomedical Informatics, Peking University Health Science Center, 38 Xueyuan Rd, Beijing 100191, China; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Peking University Health Science Center, 38 Xueyuan Rd, Beijing 100191, China
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Xin Wang School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Pages 391-404 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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