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"The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment."
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"The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)."
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