Integrating gene annotation with orthology inference at scale
Kirilenko, Bogdan M., Munegowda, Chetan, Osipova, Ekaterina, Jebb, David, Sharma, Virag, Blumer, Moritz, Morales, Ariadna E., Ahmed, Alexis-Walid, Kontopoulos, Dimitrios-Georgios, Hilgers, Leon, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Karlsson, Elinor K., Zoonomia Consortium‡, Hiller, Michael, Andrews, Gregory, Armstrong, Joel C., Bianchi, Matteo, Birren, Bruce W., Bredemeyer, Kevin R., Breit, Ana M., Christmas, Matthew J., Clawson, Hiram, Damas, Joana, Di Palma, Federica, Diekhans, Mark, Dong, Michael X., Eizirik, Eduardo, Fan, Kaili, Fanter, Cornelia, Foley, Nicole M., Forsberg-Nilsson, Karin, Garcia, Carlos J., Gatesy, John, Gazal, Steven, Genereux, Diane P., Goodman, Linda, Grimshaw, Jenna, Halsey, Michaela K., Harris, Andrew J., Hickey, Glenn, Hiller, Michael, Hindle, Allyson G., Hubley, Robert M., Hughes, Graham M., Johnson, Jeremy, Juan, David, Kaplow, Irene M., Karlsson, Elinor K., Keough, Kathleen C., Kirilenko, Bogdan, Koepfli, Klaus-Peter, Korstian, Jennifer M., Kowalczyk, Amanda, Kozyrev, Sergey V., Lawler, Alyssa J., Lawless, Colleen, Lehmann, Thomas, Levesque, Danielle L., Lewin, Harris A., Li, Xue, Lind, Abigail, Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Mackay-Smith, Ava, Marinescu, Voichita D., Marques-Bonet, Tomas, Mason, Victor C., Meadows, Jennifer R. S., Meyer, Wynn K., Moore, Jill E., Moreira, Lucas R., Moreno-Santillan, Diana D., Morrill, Kathleen M., Muntané, Gerard, Murphy, William J., Navarro, Arcadi, Nweeia, Martin, Ortmann, Sylvia, Osmanski, Austin, Paten, Benedict, Paulat, Nicole S., Pfenning, Andreas R., Phan, BaDoi N., Pollard, Katherine S., Pratt, Henry E., Ray, David A., Reilly, Steven K., Rosen, Jeb R., Ruf, Irina, Ryan, Louise, Ryder, Oliver A., Sabeti, Pardis C., Schäffer, Daniel E., Serres, Aitor, Shapiro, Beth, Smit, Arian F. A., Springer, Mark, Srinivasan, Chaitanya, Steiner, Cynthia, Storer, Jessica M., Sullivan, Kevin A. M., Sullivan, Patrick F., Sundström, Elisabeth, Supple, Megan A., Swofford, Ross, Talbot, Joy-El, Teeling, Emma, Turner-Maier, Jason, Valenzuela, Alejandro, Wagner, Franziska, Wallerman, Ola, Wang, Chao, Wang, Juehan, Weng, Zhiping, Wilder, Aryn P., Wirthlin, Morgan E., Xue, James R., Zhang, Xiaomeng·2023·Science
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