E-MTAB-10055
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PROVIDER: E-MTAB-10055 | ExpressionAtlas | 2021-03-25
REPOSITORIES: ExpressionAtlas
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| E-MTAB-10055-analysis-methods.tsv | Tabular | |||
| E-MTAB-10055-atlasExperimentSummary.Rdata | Rdata | |||
| E-MTAB-10055-configuration.xml | Xml | |||
| E-MTAB-10055-percentile-ranks.tsv | Tabular | |||
| E-MTAB-10055.condensed-sdrf.tsv | Tabular |
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