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. 2006 Sep 22;7:418. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-418

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Concept of metagenes. A metagene is a common identifier that groups together gene and gene product identifiers originating from a single gene and orthologous genes in other species. Different identifiers can be cross-linked to each other using a common metagene identifier.