E-MEXP-891
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PROVIDER: E-MEXP-891 | ExpressionAtlas | 2014-10-10
REPOSITORIES: ExpressionAtlas
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| E-MEXP-891-analysis-methods.tsv | Tabular | |||
| E-MEXP-891-atlasExperimentSummary.Rdata | Rdata | |||
| E-MEXP-891-configuration.xml | Xml | |||
| E-MEXP-891-percentile-ranks.tsv | Tabular | |||
| E-MEXP-891.condensed-sdrf.tsv | Tabular |
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