YAAM: Yeast Amino Acid Modifications Database.
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SUBMITTER: Ledesma L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7206644 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
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YAAM: Yeast Amino Acid Modifications Database.
Ledesma Leonardo L Sandoval Eduardo E Cruz-Martínez Uriel U Escalante Ana María AM Mejía Selene S Moreno-Álvarez Paola P Ávila Emiliano E García Erik E Coello Gerardo G Torres-Quiroz Francisco F
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation 20180101
<h4>Database url</h4>http://yaam.ifc.unam.mx/. ...[more]
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